The liberal left tried to use the Trayvon Martin murder as evidence that innocent black teenagers were at risk of being murdered by angry white men.\u00a0 They also tried to paint a strong anti-gun message.\u00a0 But, they may have been\u00a0wrong on both accounts.<\/p>\n
African Americans are twice as likely to be murdered as white Americans.\u00a0 However, they are not being killed by angry white people.\u00a0 The stark reality is that 94% of the time when an African American is murdered, it is another African American doing the dirty deed. \u00a0African Americans have a right to be outraged, they are just wrong about the color of the people doing the damage.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As of 2008, approximately 79.9% of Americans were considered white.\u00a0 African Americans were estimated at 12.84% of the population.\u00a0 Yet over half of the murders in this country are committed by African Americans, and they usually kill other African Americans.\u00a0 The media would have us believe that Trayvon Martin was singled out and killed because he was black.\u00a0 So far, there is little hard evidence of that.\u00a0 But in reality, the Trayvon Martins of this world have a lot more to fear from other African Americans than they do from angry white men.\u00a0 Most murders are intra-racial.\u00a0 When a white person is murdered, there is about an 86% chance that they were murdered by another white person.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Race_and_crime_in_the_United_States<\/a><\/p>\n (Note:\u00a0 I verified the data in this article with the source documents.\u00a0 There is a significant dispute with regard to the analysis in the Wikipedia article, but the statistics appear to be accurate.)<\/p>\n Prior to the civil rights movement, the treatment of African Americans in the United States was intolerable, particularly in the South.\u00a0 It is easy to understand why African Americans are so sensitive to any hint of racism.\u00a0 It is probably impossible for those of us who are white to fully understand this.\u00a0 Immediately after the Civil War, African Americans were given their freedom and the right to vote. But we all know that this was hardly the end of the struggle.\u00a0 Things didn\u2019t really change until the civil rights movement forced change.\u00a0 People who experienced this type of racism in the past can hardly be blamed for fearing racism today.<\/p>\n But, at least in this case, there does not appear to be much evidence of racism.\u00a0 George Zimmerman may or may not be guilty of a crime.\u00a0 That does not necessarily make him racist.\u00a0 So far, the only evidence of racism is in the knee jerk response by the main stream media.\u00a0 At least some of the so-called evidence of racism has been discredited.\u00a0 After further review, CNN had to admit that George Zimmerman probably didn\u2019t utter a racist slur.\u00a0 NBC deliberately altered the audio to make Zimmerman look racist.\u00a0 When NBC played the entire 9-1-1 tape, it was obvious George Zimmerman only mentioned that Trayvon Martin was black when the dispatcher asked him to describe the \u201csuspect.\u201d\u00a0 It also turns out that Zimmerman has a lot of black friends.\u00a0<\/p>\n There is a lot about the Zimmerman-Martin case that we do not know, but we do know that the main stream media reported a lot of it wrong.\u00a0 The whole point of the civil rights movement was to get away from judging people by the color of their skin.\u00a0 Neither George Zimmerman nor Trayvon Martin should be judged because of their race, they should be judge based on the facts.<\/p>\n It is quite possible that if George Zimmerman had not been armed, he would have been seriously injured and possibly killed.\u00a0 There are at least some reports that it was Trayvon Martin who attacked Zimmerman.\u00a0 If that had happened, and it was Zimmerman who was killed or injured, no one in the main stream media would care very much.\u00a0 It is easy to understand why.\u00a0 Every day we hear stories of people, who are not armed, getting killed by criminals.\u00a0 However, it is rare to hear of an unarmed criminal being shot by a licensed gun holder.<\/p>\n Every year, there are about 2.5 million people who use a legallyl purchased handgun to protect themselves.\u00a0 Rarely is anyone shot.\u00a0 That is the whole point.\u00a0<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.rense.com\/general76\/univ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n Since the FBI concentrates on reporting crimes, after they have been committed, we do not have totally accurate information on this subject.\u00a0 However, there clearly are a lot more cases where legal handguns prevent crimes than reported in the mainstream media.<\/p>\n With regard to gun control laws, liberals are concerned about the wrong people having access to firearms.\u00a0 They ignore the obvious fact that criminals seldom bother to purchase a gun legally.\u00a0 The only people who obey gun laws are law abiding citizens.\u00a0 Liberals also shudder at the thought of untrained and irrational people being armed.\u00a0 I agree.\u00a0 We should have laws that restrict access to guns by people who tend to be angry and irrational.\u00a0 How about some legislation preventing liberals from owning firearms?\u00a0 Problem solved.<\/p>\n TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The liberal left tried to use the Trayvon Martin murder as evidence that innocent black teenagers were at risk of being murdered by angry white men.\u00a0 They also tried to paint a strong anti-gun message.\u00a0 But, they may have been\u00a0wrong … Continue reading