Here is an article from Walter E. Williams from Townhall.com stating that cultural deviancy not gun control is the problem in America today:
http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2013/02/13/a-minority-view-n1509825/page/full/
There's a story told about a Paris chief of police who was called
to a department store to stop a burglary in progress. Upon his arrival, he
reconnoitered the situation and ordered his men to surround the entrances
of the building next door. When questioned about his actions, he replied
that he didn't have enough men to cover the department store's many
entrances but he did have enough for the building next door. Let's see
whether there are similarities between his strategy and today's gun
control strategy.
Last year, Chicago had 512 homicides; Detroit had 411;
Philadelphia had 331; and Baltimore had 215. Those cities are joined by
other dangerous cities -- such as St. Louis, Memphis, Tenn., Flint, Mich.,
and Camden, N.J. -- and they also lead the nation in shootings, assaults,
rapes and robberies. Both the populations of those cities and their crime
victims are predominantly black. Each year, more than 7,000 blacks are
murdered. Close to 100 percent of the time, the murderer is another black
person.
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, between 1976 and
2011, there were 279,384 black murder victims. Though blacks are 13
percent of the nation's population, they account for more than 50 percent
of homicide victims. Nationally, the black homicide victimization rate is
six times that of whites, and in some cities, it's 22 times that of
whites. Coupled with being most of the nation's homicide victims, blacks
are also most of the victims of violent personal crimes, such as assault
and robbery. The magnitude of this tragedy can be seen in another light.
According to a Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute study, between
1882 and 1968, 3,446 blacks were lynched at the hands of whites.
What percentage of murders, irrespective of race, are committed
with what are being called assault weapons? You'd be hard put to come up
with an amount greater than 1 or 2 percent. In fact, according to FBI data
from 2011, there were 323 murders committed with a rifle of any kind but
496 murders committed with a hammer or a club. But people who want to
weaken our Second Amendment guarantees employ a strategy like that of the
Paris chief of police. They can't do much about hammers, clubs, fists or
pistols, but by exploiting public ignorance, they might have a bit of
success getting an "assault weapon" ban that will have little impact on
violent crime.
There are other measures these people employ in an attempt to end
violence that border on lunacy. Massachusetts' Hyannis West Elementary
recently warned a 5-year-old's parents that if their son made another gun
from a Legos set, he'd be suspended. Elementary-school children have been
suspended or otherwise disciplined for drawing a picture of a gun or
pointing a finger and saying, "Bang, bang." I shudder to think about what
would happen to kids in a schoolyard if they played, as I played nearly 70
years ago, "cops 'n' robbers" or "cowboys 'n' Indians." Maybe today's
politically correct educators would cut the kids a bit of slack if they
said they were playing "cowboys 'n' Native Americans."
What explains a lot of what we see today, which politicians and
their liberal allies would never condemn, is growing cultural deviancy.
Twenty-nine percent of white children, 53 percent of Hispanics and 73
percent of black children are born to unmarried women. The absence of a
husband and father from the home is a strong contributing factor to
poverty, school failure, crime, drug abuse, emotional disturbance and a
host of other social problems. By the way, the low marriage rate among
blacks is relatively new. Census data show that a slightly higher
percentage of black adults had married than white adults from 1890 to
1940. In 2009, the poverty rate among married whites was 3.2 percent; for
blacks, it was 7 percent, and for Hispanics, it was 13.2 percent. The
higher poverty rates -- 22 percent for whites, 35.6 percent for blacks and
37.9 percent for Hispanics -- are among unmarried families.
Other forms of cultural deviancy are found in the kind of music
accepted today that advocates killing and rape and other vile acts.
Punishment for criminal behavior is lax. Today's Americans accept behavior
that our parents and grandparents never would have accepted.
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Cultural Deviancy, Not Guns
9:15 AM
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