A few days ago, there was a U.S. congressman on the TV who said that 80% of the gun crimes in America are committed by street-gang members. Okay. Fair enough.
But, what didn’t the congressman say? He didn’t say that most street-gang members in America are non-White (i.e., Black or Hispanic). So, in other words, most of the gun crimes in America are committed by non-Whites. This is important for several reasons. For one thing, it means that anti-gun laws are completely targeting the wrong people (no pun intended). America’s law-abiding “gun culture” (target shooting, hunting, etc.) is 95% White, so most law-abiding gun owners — the people most burdened by anti-gun laws — are White. Criminals don’t obey gun laws, so passing more of them won’t stop so-called “gun violence.” (What would stop “gun violence”? A nation-wide government crackdown on all Black and Brown males under age 40, including much-longer jail and prison sentences, and state-imposed curfews in big cities. But, of course, such a crackdown will never happen: today, Blacks and Browns have more “rights” than you do, White man).