Midnightrider
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Jerry asked me to print this months ago. I think everyone here knows I'm not a racist, especially you Sri. I probably have more brown friends than white ones. this is the crime ratio of blacks to non blacks. You asked for them, here they are. I had rather not put them on the forum, you understand why. "In over 52% of the murders in the US in 2011 in which the race of the murderer was known, the murderer was black. Over half of the victims of murder were also black. But blacks are only 13.6% of the population. Put all that together, and the murder rate in the US for non-blacks was more like 2.6 per 100,000 in 2011.
As Peter Baldwin put it in his book, The Narcissism of Minor Differences, "Take out the black underclass from the statistics, and even American murder rates fall to European levels." It's even lower when the Hispanic class is removed. Furthermore, it's been shown over and over that where there is more freedom of gun ownership there is less crime.
The problem lies in our culture, not in guns. We have always been taught to compete rather than cooperate. Exploit rather than love. At the very core of our society is the dog eat dog enthusiasm that renders thousands dead every day from the machine we have created. Yet nobody cries for those victims. We call it a necessary evil.
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. - William Pitt
The amazing thing is that a person is more likely to die from falling down a flight of stairs than to die from a gun shot. Do we outlaw stairs and make elevators mandatory? How about automobiles? A person is five times more likely to die in an automobile than to die from a gun shot wound. That's not even mentioning the much high maiming and paralysis rates associated with car wrecks.
The truth is that we don't live in a utopia and never will. Evil people will always find a way to commit murders. For me; I'd rather be judged by twelve than carried by six." This article doesn't give the percentages for Hispanics but you get the idea.
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