Posted on 02/25/2013 4:36:05 AM PST by Kaslin
This past Friday my organization, CURE, sponsored a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, to bring attention to the importance of rigorously defending the right of all Americans, guaranteed under the 2nd Amendment of our Constitution, to own a gun.
Our event provided a forum for black leaders from the world of politics and public policy in Washington, from the business community, from academia, and from the clergy to express their deep concern about efforts currently underway to limit our God-given and constitutional individual right of self-defense.
Why would an organization like CURE, whose mission focuses on the relevance of American values of faith and freedom to minorities, be so concerned about guns?
Because, as conservative black Americans, we know that the soul of America is kept alive with the free flow of the oxygen of freedom. And we know that when that flow is interrupted in any way, the group that suffers first and most are blacks.
New gun control initiatives coming from our President and from Democrats in congress to respond to a highly publicized tragedy by wanting to expand the power of government and limit the freedom of citizens comes as no surprise.
There is no problem facing America today that liberals do not believe should be solved by more government and less freedom. And liberals are consistent and predictable in their indifference to facts and experience that show whenever they do succeed in growing government and limiting freedom, they make matters worse, not better.
A substantial body of research already shows that gun controls empower criminals and weaken law-abiding citizens.
As John Lott, former chief economist of the US Sentencing Commission, recently wrote in the Wall Street Journal, “With just a single exception, the attack in Tucson last year, every public shooting in the U.S. in which three or more people have been killed since at least 1950 have occurred in a place where people are not allowed to carry their own firearms.”
Regarding black reality, blacks are the least armed, least protected and defended, and the most assaulted citizens in our country.
According to a recent Pew Research Center survey, 42 percent of whites and 16 percent of blacks say that they have a pistol or rifle at home.
And, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, for the period 1980 to 2008, “Blacks were six times more likely than whites to be homicide victims and eight times more likely to commit a homicide.”
Law abiding black citizens live under siege in crime ridden urban centers. Somehow they are supposed to buy the logic that giving more power to those in law enforcement already charged with maintaining order but don’t, while stripping down the freedoms of those that do obey the law, will make them better off?
In a Pew Research Center survey in 2009, 46 percent of whites compared to 24 percent of blacks said they have a “great deal” of confidence in the local police to enforce the law.
Can anyone whom God has blessed with a brain actually think that universal background checks will keep guns out of the hands of gang thugs? Or that these same checks, in which some past legal infraction might nullify a gun application, will not result in even fewer urban law abiding blacks obtaining a weapon for protection?
Perhaps even worse than another make-pretend big government “answer” that will not only not solve a problem, but will make it worse, gun control initiatives mask over the issues that really need attention.
A culture that devalues personal responsibility, that fosters government dependence, that trashes traditional understanding of sex, marriage, and family, and that bans these traditional values from our public schools and our public life.
Americans of all backgrounds must fight yet another misguided liberal attempt to undermine our personal freedom and sap the vitality of our nation.
A must watch short film on a great speech:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8WLXhahw_A&feature=youtu.be
Regarding black reality, blacks are the least armed, least protected and defended, and the most assaulted citizens in our country.
Blacks are also the people most likly to live in cities that have outlawed guns. Cities like Chicago where the lowlifes are armed - and honest black and white citizens aren't. Where good people aren't allowed to defend themselves or their families. No guns for the honest in those hellholes - - but criminals are armed to the teeth. It's wrong.
Regarding black reality, blacks are the least armed, least protected and defended, and the most assaulted citizens in our country.
Blacks are also the people most likely to live in cities that have outlawed guns. Cities like Chicago where the lowlifes are armed - and honest black and white citizens aren't. Where good people aren't allowed to defend themselves or their families. No guns for the honest in those hellholes - - but with criminals are armed to the teeth.
It's wrong.
That video link from New Jersey Realist made my eyes wet.
Here's the C-San video frrom Star Parker and Cure. At about 9 minutes of this 75 minute video, Star Parker asks will a question about whether abortion could nullify someone's Second Amendment right because a meta-analysis of women who had abortions by Dr. Priscilla Coleman in the British Journal of Psychtatry showed that there's an 81 percent risk of mental health problems in women who have had abortions.
Forgive any of my errors. Here's the study:
Abortion and mental health: quantitative synthesis and analysis of research published 1995–2009
I only glanced at the abstract. coleman p and abortion was entered into PubMed. There's about a dozen replies linked there! IMHO, that's a lot to read.
Very nice - thanks for sharing.
CURE is right on this issue. Honest citizens in black neighborhoods live under siege. Liberal ‘gun control’ laws assist criminals - - the law abiding are often frightened to leave their homes...
Thanks for the link neverdem.
night bump
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