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  • A Provocative Thought Experiment on Guns [letter to editor of Philadelphia Daily News]

    05/08/2008 7:19:21 AM PDT · by NewJerseyJoe · 33 replies · 15+ views
    Philadelphia Daily News ^ | 5/6/2008 | J.F. Wolfington [letter writer]
    About 90 percent of the people shot in the city last year were African-American. While figures are unavailable, it is assumed by most that close to 100 percent of the perpetrators of these shootings were African-American. Almost all the firearms used in these shootings were obtained, possessed and carried illegally by those who perpetrated the shootings. If, as is constantly claimed, we MUST DO SOMETHING to stop this violence, then why not ban African-American residents of the city from owning handguns? The answer is that that is patently unfair and discriminatory. To judge an entire group as a problem and...