‘Progressives’ Join Bloomberg in Challenging Fitness of Blacks to Own Guns

By David Codrea

By David Codrea

USA – -(Ammoland.com)- “These horrifying new numbers show how America’s lax gun laws hurt black Americans,” a Violence Policy Center-inspired screed against gun rights on Vox claims. “[T]he black homicide rate … was 16.91 per 100,000 people. In comparison, the overall national homicide rate was 4.27 per 100,000 and the white homicide rate was 2.54 per 100,000. This includes all homicides, not just gun deaths.”

Why not break it down further? And what’s with white homicide rates being lower than those of many countries that have enacted restrictive “gun controls”?

That would seem to indicate that the issue isn’t “lax gun laws,” at all, as the majority segment of the population behaves remarkably peaceably around all those guns. The implication is what Michael Bloomberg articulated a few years back, when he advocated for cities to enact special race-based disarmament edicts aimed at “minority” males up to age 25.

Curiously, the usual payoff-seeking race hustlers didn’t make a public squall over that, and the media, generally …Read the Rest

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