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Good points. My angle here (besides all the armchairing going on IE the mother must have done it because she acted in contradiction of the psych paper I read last week) is that we are currently in the midst of trying to make wide sweeping laws to limit weapons for people who do not commit the majority of crimes with them. In this case we have several components of where the majority actually do occur, young black men with pistols. As much as people on a debate forum love to argue I get very little response on this. From my side I am being somewhat hyperbolic. We can see statistically where and by who gun murders occur, and yet the new batch of laws do not address them. I expected people to jump on the violation of people's rights involved with going door to door in poor neighborhoods to collect illegal guns, but they have not which is troubling in itself. Doing so, while it may be effective in curbing gun crime, would still be violating people's rights by illegal search and other issues. My point is that the proposed new laws would violate these same rights, and since the administration is willing to violate personal rights they should do it in an effective manner. Nobody has bit.
So don't get me wrong, I'm not jumping to the conclusion that the alleged shooter did it because he is black. I do however think that the same boy (or man, depending on your perspective) showed a serious lack of human compassion with the ability to point blank shoot an infant in the face. Holy ****. I would bet there are trained soldiers who couldn't do that. That alone says we have serious societal problems, be they limited to poor black neighborhoods or not. This case needs to carefully studied for ways to fix this problem. It is not going to be quick or easy, but THIS is where we need to start, not with bans. It is clear he has a loving mother, she lied and went to jail trying to protect him. Has there been any mention of his father?
How do you presume to know that skin color is the issue here? You seem to be saying that if ALL things are equal the guy with black skin is likely to be the criminal in a gun crimes. Skin color, in and of itself, determines behavior? I don't buy it. I don't buy that at all.