Just like the insurance giant AIG was [1] brought down to its knees by a rogue London branch of the company, so could American liberties be thrown away to deal with small factions of the country, and factions that aren’t representative of the majority of Americans, at that (1).

But before explaining how this might happen, a statement must be made. This article is not intended to belittle anyone beyond their personal behavior, nor is it meant to paint an entire group of people with the same brush. As a Christian, this writer understands that the wages of sin is death, and that apart from Christ we’re all sinful creatures, worthy of damnation and completely without hope. But just as we’re all equal in our depravity without Christ, we are equal in our Heavenly Father’s eyes when we accept Christ and become brothers and sisters in Him.

However, in order to protect the common good of the majority of Americans, some issues must be brought to light in this day and age, they’re not all fun to deal with, and they don’t engender the inclusive tone that brotherhood in Christ brings. That being said, today’s topic is gun control, and why certain very tiny groups of people are responsible for and generally subjected to the gun violence we read about, and why these groups of people are the only reason that anti-gun legislation is successful at all. In order to preserve the only things keeping us from history’s long chain of violent and brutally domineering governments, Americans must not only know the truth about gun violence in America, but speak the truth and live by it. 

1) Where are murders happening?

To get started, let’s look at some cities. Chicago has [2] recently declared that they’ve had five hundred and eight school children shot within a sixteen month period (2). Detroit was recently named America’s [3] most dangerous city (3). [4] Gary, Indiana has a murder rate almost nine times the national average (4). [5] Washington DC has a murder rate almost six times that of the national average (5). [6] Baltimore has a murder rate over five times the national average (6). [7] Philadelphia, the “city of brotherly love” has a murder rate three times the national average (7).

These cities aren’t just grouped together because they’re incredibly dangerous, though, but also because they have [8] gigantic similarities: they’re all ranked as some of the most liberal cities in America, and they have large Black populations (8). In fact, most of the “most liberal” cities in America have the highest violent crime rates (even safe [9] Seattle has almost double the average rate(16)), and they look embarrassingly dangerous when compared to their “most conservative” counterparts such as [10] Provo, [11] Abilene, [12] Lubbock, [13] Hialeah, and [14] Plano, the top five conservative cities in the US.  All top conservative cities have murder rates less than the national average, with Provo reporting no murders and the most dangerous city still twice as safe as Seattle (9)(17)(18)(19)(20).

2) How are murders committed?

The second piece of information that should be made common knowledge is that guns are overwhelmingly the objects of use in American murders. The [15] US Department of Justice reports that knives and blunt objects trail far behind guns, with gun murders comprising 2/3 of all cases (10). So if it could be said that most murders occur in liberal cities with largely Black populations, and if it could be said that 2/3 of those murders involved guns, then it could be said (using a layman’s approach) that most of the murders involving guns are committed in liberal cities with large Black populations.

3) Who are the shooters?

The next piece of information we should consider is who the shooters are. In 2007, Maryland was the subject of a [16] large federal research project because Maryland kept the most detailed information regarding gun sales, and this project sought to understand what kinds of sales ended in criminal activity (11). What they found was that guns sold to Blacks near the liberal city of Baltimore had a 21-32% chance of being recovered by a criminal investigation within five years, over four to five times higher than a gun sale to a White person (11, see pg.79-82). Other non-White groups fared nearly as poorly, and when gun sales were made to Whites outside the liberal city of Baltimore, the likelihood of gun recovery after a criminal act dropped significantly (11, pg,82).  Also worth noting is that Baltimore comprised a third of all gun purchases in the state of Maryland (11, pg.4). 

4) Who are the victims?

Finally, we should be looking at who’s being shot. [17] Research done by the Bureau of Justice Statistics shows that 21% of all male arrestees had been shot in a previous incident, and that 2/3 of all firearms victims in Philadelphia from 1985 to 1990 had prior criminal histories (12, pg.5). So, if the majority of gun crimes are committed in major liberal and Black cities, and anywhere up to 2/3 of the victims could already be criminals, is gun control really the solution? Not to say that innocent people aren’t murdered on a daily basis by gun-wielding criminals, but still—this point is worth considering.

There are three things we need to be aware of, though, before we make our case for gun rights.  The first is that across the entire United States of America at this moment, Blacks in liberal cities do both the majority of the [18] shooting and the dying, regardless of the [19] miniscule portion of the population they comprise (13)(14).  We need to keep this in mind because our “great” media machine prefers to constantly repeat stories about White and Asian murderers due to a liberal bias and the threat of lawsuits from clowns like Al Sharpton, who’d prefer America to be lynching innocent Duke students. Second, we need to keep in mind that although murder rates in the Black population had declined between 1993 and 2000, they have recently spiked back up to their previously dangerous levels, but this problem seems to be located in the very precise and ideologically defined areas mentioned above(15).  Last, we need to remember that most of history’s heinous “wholesale” violations of human rights (aka mass murder) are committed by totalitarian governments–not by the citizens of Detroit–and that a Stalin is always scarier than a Jamal. 

5) What Americans need to ask

So in light of these facts, we should ask ourselves the following tough, but important question: is it fair, right, or prudent for the majority to throw away our only defense from an overbearing government—a gift bought with the blood of our valiant and righteous forefathers—because a very small minority group is doing most of the shooting [20] intraracially (13)? And must the reader be reminded that our ancestors’ blood was spilt not by random layabouts , but rather by a government which thought itself their master? 

The reason we need to ask this is because politicians need Americans to feel as though they’re under siege in order to pass these laws, and the truth is that the siege exists… but only for Black, criminal, and liberal city-dwellers.  The truth is that liberalism has done Blacks a huge disfavor, telling them they’re not smart enough, strong enough, moral enough to take care of themselves, and thorough decay is what you get when you strip someone of their integrity, their right to be a noble human being.  Let the reader understand one thing: if a Black, Christian, conservative town exists in the United States, it is as safe as Salt Lake City.

So before we go after the guns, we should consider going after the liberalism and the lousy morality that made these cities hell-holes in the first place, because—putting it as nicely as possible—left-wing policies clearly aren’t working, and the people who take the conservative Christian road are generally doing just fine.  After all, we know that guns really don’t kill people.  Not in Provo, anyway.

1) AIG brought to its knees by rogue London traders

[21] http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10153#frame_top

2) Chicago students: the new Swiss cheese

[22] http://wcbstv.com/national/Chicago.School.Students.2.955165.html

3) Detroit as America’s most dangerous city

[23] http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21870766/

4) Crime stats: Gary Indiana

[24] http://www.cityrating.com/citycrime.asp?city=Gary&state=IN

5) Crime stats: Washington DC

[25] http://www.cityrating.com/citycrime.asp?city=Washington&state=DC

6) Crime stats: Baltimore

[26] http://www.cityrating.com/citycrime.asp?city=Baltimore&state=MD

7) Crime stats: Philadelphia

[27] http://www.cityrating.com/citycrime.asp?city=Philadelphia&state=PA

8) The most liberal cities and their demographics

[28] http://govpro.com/content/gov_imp_31439/

9) Crime stats: Provo

[29] http://www.cityrating.com/citycrime.asp?city=Provo&state=UT

10) Murders by weapon

[30] http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/05cius/offenses/expanded_information/data/shrtable_08.html

11) Federal investigation of gun sales in Maryland

[31] http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/221074.pdf

12) Gun assaults in Philadelphia

[32] http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/fifc.pdf

13) Gun homicides generally intraracial

[33] http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/race.htm

14) Census findings

[34] http://www.census.gov/popest/national/asrh/NC-EST2007-srh.html

15) The recent Black murder spree

[35] http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/29/national/main4689265.shtml

16) Seattle’s crime

http://www.cityrating.com/citycrime.asp?city=Seattle&state=WA

17) Crime stats: Abilene

http://www.cityrating.com/citycrime.asp?city=Abilene&state=TX

18) Crime stats: Lubbock

http://www.cityrating.com/citycrime.asp?city=Lubbock&state=TX

19) Crime stats: Hialeah

http://www.cityrating.com/citycrime.asp?city=Hialeah&state=FL

20) Crime stats: Plano

http://www.cityrating.com/citycrime.asp?city=Plano&state=TX