First off, let me say that I spent over half my adult life in Law Enforcement and I have worked on all levels of that Profession. Throughout those decades I saw crime on every level and experienced violent crime up close and personal on more than one occasion. All the stats and skewed reporting by Agencies that were gun shy about reporting negative numbers have exacerbated the problem to the point, that now Black violence is a plague and has been for many decades now.
The Ultra liberal agenda has done so much harm to our nation by not focusing on the true and factual issues that Americans are facing hourly. The problems with society always begin in the home. Once the family unit begins to fail or succumb to media, peer or internal stresses, the offspring and is left unchecked the Offspring of future generations learn that bad behavior can be a way to vent their frustrations. The Media then fills the news hours with violence and how guns were the instruments of death and carnage all the while failing to identify that the gun was only a tool and that the person is the thing that created or committed the crime.
Blame is shifted yet again toward another area of society and that is the television or TV or video gaming where violence is often portrayed as glamorous. However, the Media outlets fail to mention or emphasize that, it is the parents and again the continuing breakdown of the Family unit that is the root or the cause of such violence that only 3rd world countries experience. In a very large majority of cases where guns or other weapons are used in the commission of crimes, the offender can be tracked backwards to a broken down family unit. The family unit that has now entered it's second and third generation of the Welfare societal state.
Black on Black/White crime has long been a major problem in America with overwhelming numbers of murders and other violent crime being Black on Black. Yet the media chooses to plaster the airwaves with the Zimmerman cases each and every night inundating the American psyche with the mental imprinting that the Blacks are the victims of oppression still. Then when the Attorney General of the United States sets the precedent of NOT prosecuting voter intimidation or the leaders of the Black Panthers who openly call for the killing or destruction of the White majority, this sends the unmistakable message to the Black Community that it is OK for them to be violent and murderous.
The FACT that, in communities/cities that have mandated or espouse the citizens to own, train and prepare in the use of firearms, the violent crime rate is extremely low to non existent. Cities like Kennesaw Georgia, Virgin Utah, and several others around the nation enjoy, the lowest crime rates across the boards and the numbers are NOT on scale, or per capita but, rather straight, raw numbers that reflect, where gun ownership is responsible and or mandatory, the thugs and criminals know to avoid those cities, communities and even states.
Again using Kennesaw Georgia as the standard here, is a close Suburb of Atlanta which is within just a few short miles from the State Capitol's center. Kennesaw was experiencing an increase of violent crime prior to the mandating that the citizens buy and learn how to use a firearm for defensive purposes. However once the news made International headlines, the violent crimes all but dropped off the books there and it is not a case for cooking the books. The true numbers are so low that at last glance, violent crime has been reduced by 89%. Black on Black crime in Kennesaw dropped by many many percentage points and Black on White Crime is almost zero percent. Kennesaw is the Gold/God standard to gage how true Gun Control works. That being the ability to "Control where the Gun is pointed."
I mentioned God above because simply, without God in Schools, the Courts, and homes, the family unit begins to fail rapidly. Ironically, Blacks are largely seen as a Church going people but, they are often taught by the likes of Jeremiah Wright or Jesse Jackson. These two men are responsible for much of the problems associated with Black/Black, Black/White crimes. They preach violence against their oppressors, yet they stand before the masses and media and say that it is the White man who is the aggressor. They conveniently fail to mention the numbers of Black on Black crime and how those numbers continue to climb annually. When confronted, the hide behind the Gun as being the thing that does the harm. They push and push the Gun issue all the while ignoring the facts that people are the killers not the guns.
If the argument of the guns being the blame were logical, then we would have a total ban on Automobiles and empty jails and prisons of Drunk Driving and related offenders.