America's obsession with guns

[Neo-Scholastic]

Black Lives Matter

You're naming BLM as a vocal media apologist?

Not so much as media figures themselves but as the group that was given a wide and largely unchallenged reach by the MSM and the blessing of the Democratic party.. Voices from their movement and news contributors kept spreading telling everyone to 'understand' the rioting as a justifiable expression of anger in African-American communities. As it turned out, they were spreading lies and misinformation about current events. This is not an esoteric debate to me. I live on the South side of Chicago in a neighborhood that is 98% African-American, 2% Hispanic, and 1% white. Just in the last year there have been 3 shootings, resulting in 7 dead, within 2 blocks of my apartment building (one in the park where I walk my dog). All these crimes are fueled by gang violence. But all any one talked about was "hands up, don't shoot" and other things that never even happened - lies that activists still promote. Perhaps, I should be for more gun control, but the issues in my neighborhood are food deserts and row and row of shuttered businesses that keep it from being a vibrant and healthy place for locals to live and work. Neither of those have anything to do with guns or police violence but they do create a vacuum that gangs are happy to fill. So I don't need coastal intellectuals, lefty politicians and tenured professors giving cover to thugs that would see my white ass buying a Pecan Pie on 71st street as something symbolic to take their frustrations out on.

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Sometimes violence is the only way to get people's attention. ...I'm not condoning the violence--but...

What you were actually saying was condoning violence. Basically, blaming the victims. "Stop being shitty and we won't riot" is the same as saying "Stop wearing short skirts and you won't get raped."