Gun Violence is .... a Democratic Problem in Obamerica

[Jumping Frog]

Very interesting FRONTPAGEMAG article on gun violence: Gun Violence is Not a Republican Problem, It’s a Democratic Problem

67% of firearm murders took place in the country’s 50 largest metro areas. The 62 cities in those metro areas have a firearm murder rate of 9.7, more than twice the national average. Among teenagers the firearm murder rate is 14.6 or almost three times the national average.

Those are the crowded cities of Obamerica. Those are the places with the most restrictive gun control laws and the highest crime rates. And many of them have been run by Democrats and their political machines for almost as long as they have been broken.

Obama won every major city in the election, except for Jacksonville and Salt Lake City. And the higher the death rate, the bigger his victory.

He won New Orleans by 80 to 17 where the murder rate is ten times higher than the national average. He won Detroit, where the murder rate of 53 per 100,000 people is the second highest in the country and twice as high as any country in the world, including the Congo and South Africa. He won it 73 to 26. And then he celebrated his victory in Chicago where the murder rate is three times the statewide average.

These places aren’t America. They’re Obamerica.

The article also discusses how these cities are run by gangs. For example, Chicago has 68,000 gang members, four times the number of police officers. Chicago politicians actively partner with gang members, accept campaign contributions, hire gang members, and help the gangs avoid police enforcement.

[Iunnrais]

You know, there's a part of me that wonders how much of the gun control lobby coming out of the large cities is actually coming from the underbelly to help ensure a more compliant 'customer' base.....

[VMI77]

You know, there's a part of me that wonders how much of the gun control lobby coming out of the large cities is actually coming from the underbelly to help ensure a more compliant 'customer' base.....

All of it, depending on how you define customer......

[K.Mooneyham]

When I take a look at the election results map for the 2012 Presidential elections, I see that the counties where the big cities in Texas are located are Democrat blue...except for Tarrant County...I know it might not hold that way next time, though. I am curious how gang activity in Cowtown compares to the rest of the cities in Texas, though.