Monday, May 26, 2014

Making Hay While the Sun Shines: The Left Politicizes Elliot Rodger

Making Hay While the Sun Shines: The Left Politicizes Elliot Rodger | Power Line:
Actually, mass shootings are pretty equally distributed among ethnic groups. 
The worst mass shooter in American history was an Asian-American, Seung-Hui Cho, and an African-American, John Muhammad, murdered at least ten people in the D.C. area. 
And, of course, the overall homicide rate among African-Americans is something like eight times the white rate.
When the NRA says, “Guns don’t kill people — people kill people,” they’ve got it half-right. Except I would amend it to this: “Guns don’t kill people — Americans kill people.”
Murder occurs in every society, but at widely varying rates. 
Switzerland and Canada have high rates of gun ownership, but low homicide rates. 
White Americans own lots of guns but commit murders at a similarly low rate. 
While it is true that “Americans kill people,” some categories of Americans kill a lot more people than others–a fact which liberals understandably try to obscure.

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