America Doesn't Have a Gun Problem, It Has a Democrat problem

[lostinblue 1,989]

Posted by Daniel Greenfield

America's mass shooting capital isn't somewhere out west where you can get a gun at the corner store. It's in Obama's own hometown.

Chicago is America's mass shooting capital. There were over 400 shootings with more than one victim. In 95 of those shootings, 3 or more people were shot.

2,995 people were shot in Chicago last year. Shootings were up, way up, in Baltimore. With an assist from Al Sharpton and #BlackLivesMatter, Baltimore beat out Detroit. But Detroit is still in the running. Chicago, Baltimore and Detroit all have something in common, they're all run by the party of gun control which somehow can't seem to manage to control the criminals who have the guns.

The murder rate in Washington, D.C., home of the progressive boys and girls who can solve it all, is up 54%. The capital of the national bureaucracy has also been the country's murder capital.

These cities are the heartland of America’s real gun culture. It isn’t the bitter gun-and-bible clingers in McCain and Romney territory who are racking up a more horrifying annual kill rate than Al Qaeda; it’s Obama’s own voting base.

Gun violence is at its worst in the cities that Obama won in 2012. Places like New Orleans, Memphis, Birmingham, St. Louis, Kansas City and Philly. The Democrats are blaming Republicans for the crimes of their own voters.

Chicago, where Obama delivered his victory speech, has homicide numbers that match all of Japan and are higher than Spain, Poland and pre-war Syria. If Chicago gets any worse, it will find itself passing the number of murders for the entire country of Canada.

Chicago’s murder rate of 15.09 per 100,000 people looks nothing like the American 4.2 rate, but it does look like the murder rates in failed countries like Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe. To achieve Chicago’s murder rate, African countries usually have to experience a bloody genocidal civil war.

But Chicago isn’t even all that unique. Or the worst case scenario. That would be St. Louis with 50 murders for 100,000 people. If St Louis were a country, it would have the 4th highest murder rate in the world, beating out Jamaica, El Salvador and Rwanda.

Obama won St. Louis 82 to 16 percent.

New Orleans lags behind with a 39.6 murder rate. Louisiana went red for Romney 58 to 40, but Orleans Parish went blue for Obama 80 to 17. Obama won both St. Louis and Baltimore by comfortable margins. He won Detroit’s Wayne County 73 to 26.

Homicide rates like these show that something is broken, but it isn’t broken among Republican voters rushing to stock up on rifles every time Obama begins threatening their right to buy them; it’s broken among Obama’s base.

Any serious conversation about gun violence and gun culture has to begin at home; in Chicago, in Baltimore, in New York City, in Los Angeles and in Washington, D.C.

Voting for Obama does not make people innately homicidal. Just look at Seattle. So what is happening in Chicago to drive it to the gates of hell?

A breakdown of the Chicago killing fields shows that 83% of those murdered in Chicago in one year had criminal records. In Philly, it’s 75%. In Milwaukee it’s 77% percent. In New Orleans, it’s 64%. In Baltimore, it’s 91%. Many were felons who had served time. And as many as 80% of the homicides were gang related.

Chicago’s problem isn’t guns; it’s gangs. Gun control efforts in Chicago or any other major city are doomed because gangs represent organized crime networks which stretch down to Mexico. And Democrats pander to those gangs because it helps them get elected. That's why Federal gun prosecutions in Chicago dropped sharply under Obama. It's why he has set free drug dealers and gang members to deal and kill while convening town halls on gun violence.

America’s murder rate isn’t the work of the suburban and rural homeowners who shop for guns at sporting goods stores and at gun shows, and whom the media profiles after every shooting, but by the gangs embedded in urban areas controlled by Democrats. The gangs who drive up America’s murder rate look nothing like the occasional mentally ill suburban white kid who goes off his medication and decides to shoot up a school. Lanza, like most serial killers, is a media aberration, not the norm.

National murder statistics show that blacks are far more likely to be killers than whites and they are also far more likely to be killed. The single largest cause of homicides is the argument. 4th on the list is juvenile gang activity with 676 murders, which combined with various flavors of gangland killings takes us nearly to the 1,000 mark. America has more gangland murders than Sierra Leone, Eritrea and Puerto Rico have murders.

Our national murder rate is not some incomprehensible mystery that can only be attributed to the inanimate tools, the steel, brass and wood that do the work. It is largely the work of adult males from age 18 to 39 with criminal records killing other males of that same age and criminal past.

If this were going on in Rwanda, El Salvador or Sierra Leone, we would have no trouble knowing what to make of it, and silly pearl-clutching nonsense about gun control would never even come up. But this is Chicago, it’s Baltimore, it’s Philly and NOLA; and so we refuse to see that our major cities are in the same boat as some of the worst trouble spots in the world.

Lanza and Newtown are comforting aberrations. They allow us to take refuge in the fantasy that homicides in America are the work of the occasional serial killer practicing his dark art in one of those perfect small towns that always show up in murder mysteries or Stephen King novels. They fool us into thinking that there is something American about our murder rate that can be traced to hunting season, patriotism and bad mothers.

But go to Chicago or Baltimore. Go where the killings really happen and the illusion comes apart.

There is a war going on in America between gangs of young men who bear an uncanny resemblance to their counterparts in Sierra Leone or El Salvador. They live like them, they fight for control of the streets like them and they kill like them.

America’s horrific murder rate is a result of the transformation of major American cities into Sierra Leone, Somalia, Rwanda and El Salvador. Gun violence largely consists of criminals killing criminals.

As David Kennedy, the head of the Center for Crime Prevention and Control, put it, "The majority of homicide victims have extensive criminal histories. This is simply the way that the world of criminal homicide works. It's a fact.”

America is, on a county by county basis, not a violent country, just as it, on a county by county basis, did not vote for Obama. It is being dragged down by broken cities full of broken families whose mayors would like to trash the Bill of Rights for the entire country in the vain hope that national gun control will save their cities, even though gun control is likely to be as much help to Chicago or New Orleans as the War on Drugs.

Obama’s pretense that there needs to be a national conversation about rural American gun owners is a dishonest and cynical ploy that distracts attention from the real problem that he and politicians like him have sat on for generations.

America does not have a gun problem. Its problem is in the broken culture of cities administered by Democrats. We do not need to have a conversation about gun violence. We need to have a conversation about Chicago. We need to have a conversation about what the Democrats have done to our cities.

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[ready4ONE 5,400]

Oddly enough I have to agree, in part, with this article. Inner city gang violence most definitely is a good part of the gun violence problem. Difficult to argue otherwise.

I do have to say that the article is quite obviously a hit piece on the Democratic Party and fails to give proper credit to the Republican Party for its role in gun proliferation, poverty concentration and so forth. Most illegal guns started off being legally sold and only later enter the hands of criminals through theft, illegal sales and legal sales that skirt background check rules big enough to drive a semi-truck through in the name of protection of 2nd Amendment rights.

But I agree, inner-city gang gun violence is a huge problem worthy of discussion.

[OnMyWayID 1,489]

America is, on a county by county basis, not a violent country, just as it, on a county by county basis, did not vote for Obama. It is being dragged down by broken cities full of broken families whose mayors would like to trash the Bill of Rights for the entire country in the vain hope that national gun control will save their cities, even though gun control is likely to be as much help to Chicago or New Orleans as the War on Drugs.

80% of all homicides in the areas with the worst crime are gang related.

Fine..

Why are these gangs fighting each other? Drug territory? Control of the prostitutes? Perceived lack of opportunity for anything else?

Part of rebuilding New Orleans was to stop clustering so that there were not concentrated pockets of poverty in housing projects. I've heard snippets about the lower crime rate but have not seen numbers.

No matter how you look at it the solution to gangs will deal with have to deal with race and poverty and will require money and changing (some radical) of laws to address. I'd be willing to put more strict gun control on the back burner and work on the other issues first. It seems to me that the same people fighting gun control also tend to be the ones that fight any change that could address poverty and drug/moral crimes that may also bring down the homicide rate.

[lostinblue 1,989]

Oddly enough I have to agree, in part, with this article. Inner city gang violence most definitely is a good part of the gun violence problem. Difficult to argue otherwise.

I do have to say that the article is quite obviously a hit piece on the Democratic Party and fails to give proper credit to the Republican Party for its role in gun proliferation, poverty concentration and so forth. Most illegal guns started off being legally sold and only later enter the hands of criminals through theft, illegal sales and legal sales that skirt background check rules big enough to drive a semi-truck through in the name of protection of 2nd Amendment rights.

But I agree, inner-city gang gun violence is a huge problem worthy of discussion.

[Ban Hammer 14,394]

Why are these gangs fighting each other? Drug territory? Control of the prostitutes? Perceived lack of opportunity for anything else?

obamaphones?

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

That is a real inconvenient truth.

[ExPatty 503]

Great article. Media doesn't care, blacks who suffer this issue substantially also don't care; BLM is about the comparatively infrequent killings of blacks why white cops to continue the fiction that is is someone else's fault. But facts have too little a role in the national discourse.

Edited January 9, 2016 by ExPatty

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

Liberal logic gave us the 55 mph speed limit. Nuff said

[Expat1 971]

80% of all homicides in the areas with the worst crime are gang related.

Fine..

Why are these gangs fighting each other? Drug territory? Control of the prostitutes? Perceived lack of opportunity for anything else?

Part of rebuilding New Orleans was to stop clustering so that there were not concentrated pockets of poverty in housing projects. I've heard snippets about the lower crime rate but have not seen numbers.

No matter how you look at it the solution to gangs will deal with have to deal with race and poverty and will require money and changing (some radical) of laws to address. I'd be willing to put more strict gun control on the back burner and work on the other issues first. It seems to me that the same people fighting gun control also tend to be the ones that fight any change that could address poverty and drug/moral crimes that may also bring down the homicide rate.

There are many areas of poverty around the world that do not have high rates of violence

[Póg mo 1,749]

80% of all homicides in the areas with the worst crime are gang related.

Fine..

Why are these gangs fighting each other? Drug territory? Control of the prostitutes? Perceived lack of opportunity for anything else?

Part of rebuilding New Orleans was to stop clustering so that there were not concentrated pockets of poverty in housing projects. I've heard snippets about the lower crime rate but have not seen numbers.

No matter how you look at it the solution to gangs will deal with have to deal with race and poverty and will require money and changing (some radical) of laws to address. I'd be willing to put more strict gun control on the back burner and work on the other issues first. It seems to me that the same people fighting gun control also tend to be the ones that fight any change that could address poverty and drug/moral crimes that may also bring down the homicide rate.

+1.

[Advanced Aardvark 82]

Oddly enough I have to agree, in part, with this article. Inner city gang violence most definitely is a good part of the gun violence problem. Difficult to argue otherwise.

I do have to say that the article is quite obviously a hit piece on the Democratic Party and fails to give proper credit to the Republican Party for its role in gun proliferation, poverty concentration and so forth. Most illegal guns started off being legally sold and only later enter the hands of criminals through theft, illegal sales and legal sales that skirt background check rules big enough to drive a semi-truck through in the name of protection of 2nd Amendment rights.

But I agree, inner-city gang gun violence is a huge problem worthy of discussion.

Poverty concentration belongs to the Democrats. Beginning in the 1960s, the Federal Government, under Democratic control for 30+ years at that time, began herding the poor into large urban housing projects so their needs could be more efficiently serviced. What we have now is simply the fifth generation of that poor decision.

[JayJayH 546]

70% of Americans support a ban on late-term abortions. So there is consensus. Pro-choice advocates fear it going farther and infringing on abortion rights.

70% of Americans support some sort of background check on those purchasing guns. So there is consensus. 2nd amendment advocates fear it going farther and infringing on 2nd amendment rights.

Bottom line: Politics in America are not polarized due to lack of consensus, but rather due to lack of trust and fear of political overreach.

[Darnell 8,479]

As a Community Organizer for Chicago,

he massively failed to fix the problem.

Since he then started having 'power' as a Senator, he used his power to cover it up.

Once President, he used that power to keep covering it up.

and so on and so forth.

When will he use his power for good, O Gentle Reader? When ?

If you can't fix problems in yer hometown, how the @@_)IF can you fix problems on a national scale ?

To me, personally, it's always meant that Banal Barry has NEVER been black enough to represent Black America on anything.

Edited January 10, 2016 by Darnell

[Darnell 8,479]

Liberal logic gave us the 55 mph speed limit. Nuff said

Eh - it's 60 all across Houston, yet I still see illegal aliens and Chinese Aunties driving 55! I wanna blame someone, can I blame you ?

[Póg mo 1,749]

Poverty concentration belongs to the Democrats. Beginning in the 1960s, the Federal Government, under Democratic control for 30+ years at that time, began herding the poor into large urban housing projects so their needs could be more efficiently serviced. What we have now is simply the fifth generation of that poor decision.

Why were these urban housing projects built in the first place? Did something occur in post war America that necessitated the construction of these projects and what would you have done differently? Also, is the Democratic party the exact same as it was then, or have demographics changed any?