Weerd at Weer’d World would like to have a national discussion, but not necessarily completely about guns.
Instead, he’s asking for a discussion regarding the disproportionate – massively disproportionate – representation of blacks in crime stats.
There seems to be a cultural problem among black families in America. Perhaps there’s too much dead-end “hip hop” / “gangster” culture, or perhaps it’s too many fatherless families or any number of a host of issues.
Blaming guns for the violence committed by these young men is not going to make this problem go away.
Anyway, here is a clip from Weerd Beard’s post:
Still I’d like to step into dangerous waters for a second. The antis keep crowing that we need a “National Discussion on Guns”. Well we had that over a decade ago, and people decided that guns were something we should embrace, not shun. The public safety numbers show this was 100% the correct move, even if you don’t believe in a natural right to defensive arms.
Still there is something we need to have a national discussion on:
I don’t mean this in any coy or agenda-based way, I also have no idea about solutions to this. I do believe this shouldn’t be a “Dirty racist discussion”.
Why are blacks such a massively disproportionate representation of violent crime numbers, despite their minority status? Why is it the most dangerous states the ones with the greatest black populations?
I would say there is a cultural problem with violence, but I see no easy way to tackle this problem. But I don’t think it should be the do-not-touch topic it is.
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