Gun Violence: Progressives in Denial

Where was Progressive outrage when Cordell Jude, a black man, gunned down an unarmed Daniel Adkins, a mentally disabled Hispanic, outside a Phoenix Taco Bell.   Progressives are in denial.  The police aren't the problem.  There are too many guns and too much gun violence in our cities.  As the CDC study shows young black men are almost 25 times more likely to be killed by a gun than young white men, and it's not the police who are doing the shooting.

The problem was summed up neatly in a documentary about urban farming (of all places) "Growing Cities" by a young black interviewee who observed that working on the urban farm in New Orleans saved him from the world of:

 "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.  Don't get caught without your gun."

You can reform the police all you want and fire the incompetents in the Cleveland police department.  But you won't make life safer for young black men until you admit what the problem is and find a way to address it: too many guns, too many guns in the wrong hands.   Unfortunately for our country and especially young black men neither the NRA on the right nor the "progressives" on the left will admit to what the problem is. 

"We doing this shit from Cleveland to LA..."  - Tupac

Homicide Rates Among Persons Ages 10–24 Years, by Race/Ethnicity and Sex, United States, 2010

http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/youthviolence/stats_at-a_glance/hr_male.html