http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/blog/bal-gun-shot-victims-often-black-males,0,2167759.story
This is another push for further gun-control. No surprise; it's the Baltimore Sun.
However, the method needs a breakdown as it is a tactic that's becoming more common...
The below are assertions the Sun makes via the Urban Institute's report (which can be found here):
1. Gun-violence is racist, sexist, and hurts children
Blacks are more likely to go to a hospital with gunshot wounds, and black women are more likely to go than white males. Also notice the use of the word, "young" at the head of the opening paragraph.
So all us gun owners who are against more regulation must be all of the above. We're heartless, racist chauvinists. Apparently.
2. Tax-payers should want more gun control because nearly 2/3rds of hospital costs were paid with public funds
Let's all ignore why these folks are ending up in the hospital in the first place. Nevermind that thriving black-market of drugs that requires gang enforcement to operate. No, no, no. It's just the guns that are wasting your taxes.
3. Maryland's amount of violent crime exceeds that of other dangerous states and the rest of the country, but we have less uninsured.
Obama and O'Malley are saving these kids (with more public funding)!
This whole thing really does push the agenda of universal healthcare and of civilian disarmament in the same article. TADA!
They make NO MENTION in the above articles of the SOURCE of the violence. Not the context, nor of the perpetrators. Are the areas and neighborhoods where these crimes are the most violent and common filled with people of other races singling out blacks to harm? They make no mention of federal firearms laws. That violent crime has been trending downward for the last 20 years.
These last points can be read here: http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/fv9311.pdf
This is another push for further gun-control. No surprise; it's the Baltimore Sun.
However, the method needs a breakdown as it is a tactic that's becoming more common...
The below are assertions the Sun makes via the Urban Institute's report (which can be found here):
1. Gun-violence is racist, sexist, and hurts children
Blacks are more likely to go to a hospital with gunshot wounds, and black women are more likely to go than white males. Also notice the use of the word, "young" at the head of the opening paragraph.
So all us gun owners who are against more regulation must be all of the above. We're heartless, racist chauvinists. Apparently.
2. Tax-payers should want more gun control because nearly 2/3rds of hospital costs were paid with public funds
Let's all ignore why these folks are ending up in the hospital in the first place. Nevermind that thriving black-market of drugs that requires gang enforcement to operate. No, no, no. It's just the guns that are wasting your taxes.
3. Maryland's amount of violent crime exceeds that of other dangerous states and the rest of the country, but we have less uninsured.
Obama and O'Malley are saving these kids (with more public funding)!
This whole thing really does push the agenda of universal healthcare and of civilian disarmament in the same article. TADA!
They make NO MENTION in the above articles of the SOURCE of the violence. Not the context, nor of the perpetrators. Are the areas and neighborhoods where these crimes are the most violent and common filled with people of other races singling out blacks to harm? They make no mention of federal firearms laws. That violent crime has been trending downward for the last 20 years.
These last points can be read here: http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/fv9311.pdf
