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America Doesn’t Have a Gun Problem, It Has a Gang Problem
FrontPageMag.com ^ | 31 Dec 12 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 12/31/2012 5:51:16 AM PST by LSUfan

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.

Chicago matches the murder rate for Japan and is higher than the murder rates for Spain, Poland and pre-war Syria. If Chicago gets any worse, it will find itself passing the homicide rate for the entire country of Canada.

Chicago’s murder rate of 15.65 per 100,000 people looks nothing like the American 4.2 rate, the Midwestern 4.5 or the Illinois’ 5.6 rates, 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 or decades of tyranny.

But Chicago isn’t even all that unique. Or the worst case scenario. That would be New Orleans which at an incredible 72.8 murder rate is ten times higher than the national average. If New Orleans were a country, it would have the 2nd highest murder rate in the world, beating out El Salvador.

Louisiana went red for Romney 58 to 40, but Orleans Parish went blue for Obama 80 to 17.

St. Louis has a murder rate just a little lower than Belize. Baltimore has a worse murder rate than South Africa and Detroit has a worse murder rate than Colombia. 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 the Romney voters rushing to stock up on assault rifles every time Obama begins threatening their right to buy them; it’s broken among Obama’s base.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Mexico; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: banglist; gangs; guncontrol; guns; murders; secondamendment
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1 posted on 12/31/2012 5:51:23 AM PST by LSUfan
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The rail systems of New York should be shut down and abandoned as it was the weapon of preference to the murder of the guy form India, a hate crime.
2 posted on 12/31/2012 5:56:40 AM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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And the worst gang of all is the Democratic party.


3 posted on 12/31/2012 6:06:19 AM PST by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Vendetta))
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To: Hardraade

Amen to that brother!


4 posted on 12/31/2012 6:14:03 AM PST by bt-99 ("Get off my Lawn")
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To: Hardraade

Amen to that brother!


5 posted on 12/31/2012 6:14:16 AM PST by bt-99 ("Get off my Lawn")
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To: LSUfan

Of course one would be quickly and loudly labeled as a right wing racist to point out the obvious here.

My suggestion would be to fence these places in, give them all of the fully auto weapons and ammo they could possibly want and let the situation take care of itself.

In the mean time leave the rest of us the hell alone.


6 posted on 12/31/2012 6:16:30 AM PST by technically right
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To: LSUfan
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.

The whole point. The democRAT's policies have created this mess exactly to destroy this country as founded.

"Better to rule in hell than serve in heaven." - John Milton

7 posted on 12/31/2012 6:20:13 AM PST by Ouderkirk (Obama has turned America into an aristocracy of the unaccomplished.)
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To: LSUfan

Read the comments by the morons who think that if we outlaw guns these gangs will be disarmed. They seem to think these gangbangers are getting their guns at gun shows and private sales and not on the black market.


8 posted on 12/31/2012 6:26:40 AM PST by ez (When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.)
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To: Hardraade

Aren’t most of the other gangs wholly owned subsidiaries of that one?


9 posted on 12/31/2012 6:32:46 AM PST by Gil4 (Progressives - Trying to repeal the Law of Supply and Demand since 1848)
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To: Ouderkirk
"Better to rule in hell than serve in heaven." - John Milton

Psalm 84 Verse 10:

For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. - King David

10 posted on 12/31/2012 6:37:28 AM PST by Graybeard58 ("Civil rights” leader and MSNB-Hee Haw host Al Sharpton - Larry Elder)
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To: LSUfan
Chicago’s murder rate of 15.65 per 100,000 people looks nothing like the American 4.2 rate, the Midwestern 4.5 or the Illinois’ 5.6 rates, 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 or decades of tyranny.

Interesting DOJ statistical analysis (rare in that it breaks out Hispanic crime instead of lumping Hispanic and white crime together):

Forty-one percent of violent felons were black, non- Hispanic , 30% were Hispanic, and 26% were white, non-Hispanic. Blacks (46%) comprised a higher percentage of murderers than Hispanics (27%) or whites (23%).
If you subtract out the black and Hispanic homicides, the white homicide rate is about the same as Europe.
11 posted on 12/31/2012 6:40:03 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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Why are there gangs? The Democrats created 40 years of welfare and a dependent society where the gub’ment check just arrives each month with nothing expected in return. As these people get their meager check they still can’t have what others have so the only way to get it is unlawfully. The dependent society has no incentive to better one’s life.


12 posted on 12/31/2012 6:45:28 AM PST by From The Deer Stand
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To: LSUfan

All examples of Amish concentration.


13 posted on 12/31/2012 6:54:51 AM PST by School of Rational Thought (Fun for women ages 21 through 35)
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“America Doesn’t Have a Gun Problem, It Has a Gang Problem”

Most gang members are minorities.
Most gang members are young minorities.
Most gang members live in the inner cities.
Most gang members live in minority majority cities.

Oops, another inconvenient truth therefore the author of the article must be racist.

sarc/

14 posted on 12/31/2012 7:12:38 AM PST by Tupelo (I'm an old man and most people hate me, but I don't like them either so that makes it all even.)
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To: School of Rational Thought

“All examples of Amish concentration.”

You haven’t watched the new show “Amish Mafia” yet? They are bad to the bone. Best one was a shop in theirnlittl town was selling Amish goods made in China instead of local product goods. The mafia wasn’t too happy with that.


15 posted on 12/31/2012 7:13:12 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (You can't bring something to its knees that refuses to stand on its own)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Still too early... Sorry for the misspellings.


16 posted on 12/31/2012 7:14:06 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (You can't bring something to its knees that refuses to stand on its own)
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To: LSUfan
I posted on another thread - the murder rate in Chicago for 2012 is higher than the # of troops killed in Afghanistan (398 deaths) for 2012. You're safer in Afghanistan than in Chicago and guns are banned (only for the good guys) in Chicago.
17 posted on 12/31/2012 7:19:00 AM PST by 2nd amendment mama ( www.2asisters.org | Self defense is a basic human right!)
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To: LSUfan

No, America has a failure of will problem. One platoon of marines could fix the gang problem if we had the will to let them.


18 posted on 12/31/2012 7:21:35 AM PST by Nota particle
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To: LSUfan
We need a gang that wears our colors.


19 posted on 12/31/2012 7:31:52 AM PST by fattigermaster
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America doesn’t have a gang problem, it has a prohibition problem.


20 posted on 12/31/2012 7:42:45 AM PST by Jabba the Nutt (.Are they stupid, malicious or evil?)
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