Yes, I'm throwing out the racist charge. Yes, I do think it's deserved. I can come up with no other term to describe the concept that the solution to black homicide is to reduce the access of black Americans to firearms.

That's a direct link to the analysis.  Now, I will admit that it is a bit unclear if there's some rhetorical sleight of hand going on here.  The entire report is about black homicide and black victims and how black people are more likely to be killed by guns.  I could not see any discussion of the race of the offender, though I may have missed that. After this discussion, the sentence is "Successful efforts to reduce America’s black homicide toll must put a focus on reducing access to firearms."  (p. 6)  Note that there is no racially restrictive language in that sentence.  Reading the prior analysis, however, the conclusion would be that the group whose access must be restricted is black Americans. 

That is straight up racist.  Seriously.  There was a tremendously shameful period of American history in which blacks were denied the right to own firearms.  I cannot believe it's 2010 and some liberal group is, more or less, making that argument.  It's absurd.  It's insulting.  It's disgusting.  And, yes, it's racist as all get out.

I fully expect to the response to be "oh no we want to take away everyone's guns so that's not racist!"  Nope.  It's just idiotic, pathetic and unconstitutional. Not to mention counterproductive and attempts to take away one of the most fundamental human rights, the right to self-preservation.  I will defer to eddie's prowess regarding the content of my response to that idea.

It appears that Pennsylvania is number one, btw.  Ha!  We are better shots than Detroit!  I'm calling shenanigans on that though.  I mean, most of that has to be Philly and as we all know Philly actually belongs in New Jersey. 

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