Why I am reminded to avoid political threads on the Internet now...

[Mr Khan]

badgenome said:

mrstickball said:
But instead, you have all the "Civil rights" people jumping into this tempest in a teapot. Bad things happen all the time, yet why is it only now anyone cares?

40 something shootings on the south side of Chicago during St. Patrick's weekend alone.

One kid is shot by someone who may be sort of white, kind of. Almost.

Because the NRA isn't frantically trying to justify the 40-something shootings on the South Side of Chicago? The Black community has made efforts against black-on-black violence, but what it really amounts to in the end is poverty. In this case there's an element of preventability if Florida wasn't trying to make itself into the mythic version of the Old West (because hey, in the actual Old West, you had to check your rifles at the entrance to town. Back then they had this crazy idea that guns killed people).