Thursday, December 27, 2012

It's not about children, about safety, or violence, it's about politics

A gun control debate in Congress is probably needed, because the general public needs to hear about declining gun violence rates and the thousands of gun laws on the books; also include our failing mental health system and rising violent themes in movies and video game industry. Then let Jamie Foxx testify and brag about his killing only white people in his latest movie.
 
"Ivy League bound youngsters in private schools across the nation are the beneficiaries of top notch security systems which almost always include armed personnel. Yet ruling class pols like Obama and Bloomberg want to deny regular folks the same security their children enjoy. Obama, with his four-year "under the radar" push against our Second Amendment rights, has no problem suggesting the underclasses put their kids in harm's way."
 
 
A task force report on firearms dated April 2002 on violence involving children based on a systematic review of all available studies. They went to a lot of work, but I doubt Congress will ever consider it because the task force couldn't determine the effectiveness of the firearm laws to prevent violence or reduce violent outcomes. Minds are already made up and this has become a political issue, not one based on facts and figures.
 
 
When Britain and Australia disarmed their citizens, the criminals did what the bad guys always do--they didn't obey the law.
 
 
Homicide is primarily a problem of maleness--victim and perp--youth and ethnicity. Homicide rates among non-Hispanic, African-American males 10-24 years of age (62.2 per 100,000) exceed those of Hispanic males (21.5 per 100,000) and non-Hispanic, White males in the same age group (3.4 per 100,000) (CDC 2009a). Obama ignored these facts until white suburban children were killed, then said he had been too busy fundamentally transforming our society to do anything like appoint a task force. Can't imagine why blacks support him, except for his race.
 
 
No surprise here. "Researchers found that people who played a violent video game for three consecutive days showed increases in aggressive behavior and hostile expectations each day they played. Meanwhile, those who played nonviolent games showed no meaningful changes in aggression or hostile expectations over that period."
 
 
 

3 comments:

Deb said...

Hi, Norma Chicago just hit the 500 mark on homicides this week. Didn't see Obama wiping away many tears over that loss of life. It's almost as though those lives didn't matter.

Feinstein couldn't wait to exploit the shootings,, either. Didn't see her addressing the homicide in Chicago and elsewhere, either.

Cowards and hypocrites. Worthless.

Deb said...

Oh, and don't leave out Rahm Emmanuel in that group.
http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/12/someone-tell-rahm-emanuel-his-children-are-protected-by-armed-guard-at-school/

Norma said...

Hi Deb, good to hear from you.