August 7, 2015
Gun stores being sued by parents for deaths of minority kids
By Newsmachete
If a person driving drunk in a Honda kills a pedestrian, why can't the victim's family sue Honda? After all, Honda was responsible for giving the car to the driver. Cars can be used for many good ends, but they can also be used to kill.
And yet we never see car manufacturers sued this way, the same way gun manufacturers and gun sellers are:
Pam Bosley and Annette Nance-Holt both lost teenage sons to gun violence.. Bosley and Nance-Holt claim their civil rights have been violated by three suburban governments that they say do not adequately regulate gun shops near the Chicago border. The suit argues that weapons sold at these stores are responsible for too much of the violence that disproportionately afflicts this poor, black corner of Chicago.
Together, they blame the three villages, Lyons, Lincolnwood and Riverdale, for what they call a “flood” of guns into the city. On average, police have recovered a gun sold at Chuck’s Gun Shop in Riverdale every day for the past 10 years, McCarthy said. Gun shops in the three villages — together with another store in Indiana — supplied almost a fifth of all firearms found at Chicago crime scenes from 2009 to 2013, according to a report published last year by the mayor’s office.
Almost a fifth! Where did the other 80% come from? Were they legally bought? Isn't the source of the 80% a lot more important than the 20%? The article writer doesn't know or doesn't care.
The villages must clamp down on their shops, the mothers say, by insisting on security cameras, employee background checks and training staff members to detect people buying guns for third parties.
None of which will help in the slightest if a person has a legal right to buy a gun.
Central to their case is the claim that the weapons these stores sell wreak more havoc in black communities than in white ones.
That's precisely the point. If you sell 100 of these guns in a stable, white neighborhood, no one is going to get shot. But if you sell 100 of these in a minority neighborhood where single parents do an awful job, or no job at all, of raising their kids, of course kids are going to shoot each other. It's Lord of the Flies, Chicago-style.
When she asked students at Blair’s high school how many teenagers they knew who had a gun, she says almost everybody’s hand went up. “We have so many guns in the African American community, it’s unbelievable,” she said.
No. What's unbelievable is that parents are aware of this and do nothing. What kind of parent lets his or her child have a gun without strict supervision? What kind of parent is unaware of where his or her child is and what that child is doing at all times of the day and night? It's the fault of the parents who raise wild children, not the fault of gun shop owners who are following the law. Can you imagine what would happen if gun shops refused to sell to black people? They would be sued instantly.
The Rev. Michael Pfleger, pastor at St. Sabina, is joining the mothers in their suit and stands by the civil rights claim. Pfleger said the same level of violence “wouldn’t be tolerated” if it were directed against middle-class white people...
A curious statement, since some single-parent black families tolerate precisely such behavior among their children.
To be clear, there are many middle-class and some poorer-class black families who are intact, stable, and responsible. But there are too many who aren't, and their failure to raise their children properly and then blame it on gun sellers is the height of misdirection and hypocrisy.
This article was produced by NewsMachete.com, the conservative news site.
If a person driving drunk in a Honda kills a pedestrian, why can't the victim's family sue Honda? After all, Honda was responsible for giving the car to the driver. Cars can be used for many good ends, but they can also be used to kill.
And yet we never see car manufacturers sued this way, the same way gun manufacturers and gun sellers are:
Pam Bosley and Annette Nance-Holt both lost teenage sons to gun violence.. Bosley and Nance-Holt claim their civil rights have been violated by three suburban governments that they say do not adequately regulate gun shops near the Chicago border. The suit argues that weapons sold at these stores are responsible for too much of the violence that disproportionately afflicts this poor, black corner of Chicago.
Together, they blame the three villages, Lyons, Lincolnwood and Riverdale, for what they call a “flood” of guns into the city. On average, police have recovered a gun sold at Chuck’s Gun Shop in Riverdale every day for the past 10 years, McCarthy said. Gun shops in the three villages — together with another store in Indiana — supplied almost a fifth of all firearms found at Chicago crime scenes from 2009 to 2013, according to a report published last year by the mayor’s office.
Almost a fifth! Where did the other 80% come from? Were they legally bought? Isn't the source of the 80% a lot more important than the 20%? The article writer doesn't know or doesn't care.
The villages must clamp down on their shops, the mothers say, by insisting on security cameras, employee background checks and training staff members to detect people buying guns for third parties.
None of which will help in the slightest if a person has a legal right to buy a gun.
Central to their case is the claim that the weapons these stores sell wreak more havoc in black communities than in white ones.
That's precisely the point. If you sell 100 of these guns in a stable, white neighborhood, no one is going to get shot. But if you sell 100 of these in a minority neighborhood where single parents do an awful job, or no job at all, of raising their kids, of course kids are going to shoot each other. It's Lord of the Flies, Chicago-style.
When she asked students at Blair’s high school how many teenagers they knew who had a gun, she says almost everybody’s hand went up. “We have so many guns in the African American community, it’s unbelievable,” she said.
No. What's unbelievable is that parents are aware of this and do nothing. What kind of parent lets his or her child have a gun without strict supervision? What kind of parent is unaware of where his or her child is and what that child is doing at all times of the day and night? It's the fault of the parents who raise wild children, not the fault of gun shop owners who are following the law. Can you imagine what would happen if gun shops refused to sell to black people? They would be sued instantly.
The Rev. Michael Pfleger, pastor at St. Sabina, is joining the mothers in their suit and stands by the civil rights claim. Pfleger said the same level of violence “wouldn’t be tolerated” if it were directed against middle-class white people...
A curious statement, since some single-parent black families tolerate precisely such behavior among their children.
To be clear, there are many middle-class and some poorer-class black families who are intact, stable, and responsible. But there are too many who aren't, and their failure to raise their children properly and then blame it on gun sellers is the height of misdirection and hypocrisy.
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