On 2012-12-20, at 6:40 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote:
>>> "Latinos are the most likely to say that controlling gun
>>> ownership should be prioritized over protecting the right
>>> to bear arms, while African Americans are the second most
>>> likely to feel this way. Whites, on the other hand, are
>>> the most likely to value the right to bear arms…Latinos
>>> are more than twice as likely to die of gun-related violence
>>> as white Americans, and African Americans are more than five
>>> times as likely to die from gun violence as whites,
>>> according to 2010 data from the U.S. Department of Health
>>> and Human Services."
>
> Too bad this doesn't read like this:
>
> "Latinos are the most likely to say that they'd like someone to give more than two shits about the problem that, due to having a persistent economic underclass in the US, many young men find underground black-market economies more attractive than "minimum wage" jobs (which are increasingly unavailable anyway) and where, by their very nature, extreme violence is used to support the criminal enterprise. Latinos are more than twice as likely to die of gun-related violence as white Americans, and African Americans are more than five times as likely to die from gun violence as whites …"
You clearly have strong feelings about the subject. Maybe you should go into the barrios and explain the economic roots of gang violence to these poor folks and that trying to curb access to automatic weapons in their neighbourhoods is a diversion from the real task of providing their young men with decent well-paid jobs.