Gun Control

I said this before in a previous post. Gun control is not a gun issue. It is a black youth issue. The statistics for the United States can't even be compared to other countries because of this fact. People bringing up the stats for the US and trying to use it to further gun control saying "countries with stricter gun laws have less crime and less murders and blah blah blah". Different cultures, man. Go look at how low Asian countries crime/murder rates are. Is that because they have slightly stricter gun laws? OR is it because they are a completely different culture? You don't see young Japanese kids running around beating 88-year-olds to death outside of a bar, do you? Except for really fringe cases you don't. It is the culture we have in America that is the cause of our high gun violence rates not our gun laws that are ever so slightly more lax than other countries with much lower statistics.

Is it all that damn rap music kids are listening to these days? Of course not. Is it those violent video games that is desensitizing kids to violence? I really doubt it. I'm not typing this pretending I have a fix for this problem, I don't know man. It just seems like we need to spend more of our time and money into fixing the shitty school systems that have like 30% graduation rates. Those schools are basically pumping out criminals. They are factories for gun violence. Instead of spending all this time trying to stop people from getting guns, why don't we try to stop kids from actually wanting to grow up and use them. That would be killing quite a few birds with one stone. It would not only lower gun violence crime, it would lower all crime. All these cities that are struggling economically have such high murder rates. Detroit and Oakland, and all those other cities we hear about in the news. Just this constant cycle of kids growing up there in that environment and thinking that it is OK to shoot someone just because they "diss" you.

The two teens that killed Delbert Belton(the WWII vet) that is all over the news, they didn't even use a gun. The 3 teens that killed that Australian guy a few days ago, they used a gun. If they didn't have a gun they probably would've just done what the two kids did to Delbert. Both sides of this issue like to pick and choose what facts they bring up, but one thing stays the same in all of them. It is young minorities in bad neighborhoods that are doing the HUGE majority of the violent crimes. Except for those crazy fringe cases, like Sandy Hook.

I am open for debate on this issue. Feel free to comment on whether you agree or not. Just don't be too mean, if you disagree.