Bill Clinton: “We Can’t Just Have People Walking Around With Guns, You Know” (Video)

We can’t just have all this freedom, you know:

Yesterday on CNN’s State of the Union, former President Bill Clinton responded to a question about what’s wrong with Baltimore by blaming guns:

Clinton: The Baltimore thing came on the heels of what happened in Ferguson, what happened in New York City and all these other places. And there is a big national movement about whether the lives of young African-American men count.

Jake Tapper: #BlackLivesMatter, yeah.

Clinton: Yeah. You can’t have a bunch of people walking around with guns. I used to tell people when we did Bosnia, Kosovo, anything like that: You get enough people with weapons around, and there will be unintended consequences. People make mistakes. People do wrong. Things happen.

There are around 270 to 310 million guns in America. Pew Research says that’s close to one firearm for every man, woman and child in the country.

Why then, isn’t there mass unintended consequences?

The question isn’t regarding the unintended consequences of too many guns, but the unintended consequences of decades of progressive social experimentation.

Since the 1960s, the left has been trying to help the black community. It’s no secret that “help” resulted in the destruction of the black family. Now, over 70 percent of black families don’t have a father.

Look at this:

Preliminary data indicate that 40.7 percent of all 2012 births were out-of-wedlock, which is appalling, and there are vast differences among racial and ethnic groups. Among non-Hispanic blacks, the figure is highest, at 72.2 percent; for American Indians/Alaska Natives, it’s 66.9 percent; 53.5 percent for Hispanics; 29.4 percent for non-Hispanic whites; and a mere 17.1 percent for Asians/Pacific Islanders.

Now compare it to this:

There is some nuance that is important for that chart:

The particularities of gun deaths among white and black Americans can be as different as the rates at which they occur. As The Washington Post noted last year, African-Americans who are killed by gun violence are significantly more likely to die as a result of a homicide. Whites are much more likely to use a gun to commit suicide.

A white person is five times as likely to commit suicide with a gun as to be shot with a gun; for each African American who uses a gun to commit suicide, five are killed by other people with guns.

So homicide is far greater in the black community than the white, as is the number of homes without dads.

Yeah. You can’t have a bunch of people walking around without dads. You get enough families without dads around and there will be unintended consequences. People make mistakes. People do wrong. Things happen.

#DadsMatter