Are We Adult Enough To Ask “Why?”, Then Act?

I wonder how long it will take….

Although the U.S. murder rate has been dropping for years, an analysis of homicide data by The Wall Street Journal found that the number of black male victims increased more than 10%, to 5,942 in 2010 from 5,307 in 2000.

Overall, more than half the nation’s homicide victims are African-American, though blacks make up only 13% of the population. Of those black murder victims, 85% were men, mostly young men.

You don’t often see the press point this out.  Most murders are black-on-black.  Young, black men murdering other young, black men.  I’ve written on this before and until we take this on, and then act on the precursors to the problem and put a stop to them we will never see a solution.

The precursor is the drug war and an eviscerated manufacturing section of our economy that offers few good jobs for those who are not “rocket scientists.”

But there is an economy that offers riches and “street cred.”  It’s drug peddling.  Drug peddling that our government itself is involved in, including explicitpermission, it is alleged, for various Mexican cartels. 

Let’s face reality — guns are expensive and so is ammunition.  Very expensive, when you don’t have a good job.  They are turned into tools, status symbols, means of “expression” like gold grills in kids’ teeth, the latter of which we have among high schoolers these days.

We’re never going to solve this problem with “more police, more interdiction, more stop-n-frisks, more evisceration of fundamental liberty interests.”

We will stop it if and when we stop using the jack boot of government to enable 15 year old black youth the means by which they can afford a pistol, the ammunition to feed it and a reason to use it. 

But that requires that we start treating people like Eric Holder as the criminals that they are, holding them to account as accessories and co-conspirators to the drug running and gang shootings that take place because of our government policies on drugs and our explicit permission granted to certain cartels to run them. 

It means that we recognize that the government has no right to dictate what you do in the privacy of your own home, freeing up half or more of our prisons and expunging every drug-related

2012-08-20 18:20:20

Source: http://www.philstockworld.com/2012/08/20/are-we-adult-enough-to-ask-why-then-act/