Is The Violence Policy Center Advocating Restricting The Gun Rights of Blacks?

The Violence Policy Center is pushing for limited access to firearms reduced in the name of “stopping the violence”. It’s the usual gun control argument with one interesting twist: the paper targets blacks specifically. From the paper’s conclusion:

For blacks, like all victims of homicide, guns — usually handguns — are far and away the number one murder tool. Successful efforts to reduce America’s black homicide toll must put a focus on reducing access to firearms.

Set aside for a moment that restricting firearm access is not some magical path to reducing homicide. Does the language in this document bother anybody? It sure sounds like the VPC is advocating restricting the gun rights of blacks.
I imagine the VPC would argue that the paper’s focus on black violence is being extrapolated as part of a call for greater gun control for all people, not just blacks. That doesn’t help things, it just makes it a different kind of stupid. But if that’s the case, why not just say that, instead of advocating “reduc[ing] America’s black homicide toll” by putting a “focus on reducing access to firearms”? The way it’s worded that interpretation is hard to swallow unless the statistics show that most blacks are murdered by whites. They don’t.
In 2008, 3,024 blacks were murdered in the U.S. 2,722 (9%) of them were murdered by other blacks, accoring to the FBI. For comparison’s sake, 13.8% of homicides were the result of black on white violence (504 of 3,643). Please note that I used 2008 statistics because the 2009 report was identified as “preliminary” on the FBI’s website.
For completeness, here are the statistics for 2007, which were the basis for the paper: 3,221 blacks were murdered that year, with whites being the perpetrator 7.6% (245) of the time. Whites were murdered by blacks in 566 of 3,587 cases (15.8%).
The paper ignores the fact that most homicides are committed by a person of the same race as the victim in its calls for restricting access to guns. By doing so, its conclusion reads as a call to limit that access based on race. The paper points out the significantly higher homicide rate for blacks. By framing the report in this way, it puts forth the argument that blacks are far more likely to be murdered than whites and the way to reduce homicides in the black population is to restrict access to guns. However, if it is mostly blacks who kill other blacks, then there should be no need to restrict gun access to non-blacks.
I’m willing to assume that this is not what the authors of the paper intended. If so, it would be a smart move by the Violence Policy Center to clarify that.

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  • http://Array sayanything-43

    We actually know that crime in the US is highly correlated with how liberal the locality is.

    Check out this map of where people voted for Obama and compare that with the high crime areas.

    http://rovingpatrol.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/2008_election_map-counties.jpg

  • sayanything-5371

    Facts are facts. Even though blacks are only 13% of the population blacks are involved in 50% of ALL murders and are involved in 75% of ALL violent crimes.

    I don’t care if any idiot calls me racist for pointing this out. The reason for this is liberal policy stemming from the LBJ administration. LBJ’s “Great Society” which created a massive multi-generational welfare system still in place today. This created a dependent group who vote for their next handout and live in huge inner city government housing projects.

    The hopelessness, poverty and crime of these people is a major factor in high crime rates involving drugs, easy money and murder. Rap, hip hop, ebonics and poor schools prepare these people for nothing but a lifetime of more of the same.

    The “war on poverty” has been going on for over 40 years and isn’t being won by liberal policy and never will be. Liberal social engineering experiments like LBJ’s Great Society are formulas for misery and failure.

    Socialism is a loser system that has failed everywhere it’s been tried.

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    I’m in favor of keeping guns out of the hands of glue sniffers like
    Sparkless.

  • sayanything-316

    Yes, and a disproportionate share of gun-related violence is committed by gang-banging thugs, offing each other and shooting innocent victims of their drug-fueled criminality.

    PROJECT EXILE, from what I understand, came pretty close to actually addressing the real offenders / drivers of gun crime. PROJECT EXILE was a State-Federal joint effort that put heavy emphasis on zero tolerance for gun crime.

    It was a reaction to the catch-and-release problems that plague many localities, a thug gets arrested, booked, and almost before the paperwork is done, he is back on the block.

    If the State cannot keep the armed and violent felons off the street, they cannot protect potential witnesses. Without witnesses, the prosecutions’ case goes out the window. Now the armed, violent thugs rule your streets.

    With zero tolerance, enhanced penalties for those felons caught with guns. And for an added kicker, they would be Exiled to a very distant prison, making contact with his homies and hoes well nigh impossible. Tough to keep your posse in line from a jail cell 4 states away.

    The problem, of course, is like all laws in the wrong hands, zero tolerance can bite the normally law-abiding but on a basic gun-possession charge, now super-charged with federal penalties.

    If they really wanted to end violent crime, their focus would be on the criminal and his repeat pattern of violent crime, not focusing on guns.

  • sayanything-81

    What a surprise. Zig is in favor of taking away guns from blacks.

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