Like RKV said, oddly enough, criminals don’t particularly like committing crimes in places where there is a possibility somebody could be packing heat. A good book on the subject: More Guns, Less Crime by John R. Lott, Jr. And if you haven’t seen the Penn & Teller “Bullsh*t” episode on gun control I would highly recommend you look it up. It’s a humorous and somewhat damning look at just how stupid gun control is.
As far as blacks and hispanics/latinos being the causers of most crimes: I’m sick of the PC crap that says it’s wrong for me to be more vigilant if I’m walking down the street in a city late at night and there are black and hispanic/latino men around. I’m by no means a racist; I’m merely hedging my bets based on what I know about the statistics of crime. If there were roving gangs of little 80-year-old women beating people with canes and stabbing them with knitting needles I’d be equally scared of a blue-haired granny coming at me. As it stands, anybody who needs to feel the moral superiority of calling me a racist because I use basic common sense in the places I go and the people I’m edgier around based on statistically provable fact, go ahead. You can also walk down the streets in South Central L.A. or Detroit at night and tell me how that works out for you.
This crime trend – and a few others – will only go away when a few conditions have been met:
1) We stop giving handouts to people and start making them work. If you have to work for what you get, you’re more likely to not only have more respect for your own belongings, you also have more respect for the belongings of others.
2) We stop acting like entering a post-family era is a good thing. Children of families with both a mother and a father are still more likely to succeed, be happier, and commit less crime than those who grow up in single-parent households.
3) We stop making excuses for minority groups. “His family has always been poor so he never had a chance” is a cop-out. Many poor people pull themselves out of horrible circumstances and become not only very well-off, but also respected community leaders and family men/women. But it requires hard work, which unfortunately most people don’t seem to want to do anymore. And nobody ever seems to be making excuses for Asian minorities; instead, they’re treated about as well as white men. Could it be because they are actual proof that a minority group can succeed in America without the “help” of the US government?
4) We stop falling feeling “white guilt” and call minorities on their own anti-white racism. You know, I realize that back in the day white Americans had black slaves and that it was wrong. However, I myself have never owned and will never own a slave. Neither of my parents owned slaves. None of my grandparents did either. So I absolutely refuse to feel guilty for a practice that I a) did not participate in (by several generations); b) would not condone if it was still going on here; and c) still see happening elsewhere but that, for various reasons, sees far less outrage than that directed at the slave trade that ended here over 100 years ago.
5) We stop pretending minorities need a leg-up to get good jobs. If I were a minority I would be offended and enraged that anybody thought I needed “extra help” from the government to get anywhere. Because that is exactly what affirmative action and quotas are. It’s like the government saying “We know you can’t make it on your own, so let us help you.” However, instead of creating outrage it has created a complacency among minorities. Why work harder when you just have to check that little box that says “African-American” or “Hispanic”? And don’t even get me started on the ridiculousness that is the PC label “African-American”. If I’m white, you’re black. End of story.
6) Minorities actually call out their own when they commit crimes. Just imagine what would happen if, instead of complaining about the police arresting a known criminal for a crime they were caught doing, minorities actually called the police and told them where the guy was. This “us vs. them” attitude is ridiculous and completely antithetical to everyone just plain getting along. Race-baiting doesn’t help anybody but the people who participate in it; usually politicians, criminals, or people sucking at the public teat.
Imagine what would happen if these conditions were met and we stopped pandering to race-baiters like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Obama. Minorities would have more self-respect, there would be actual equality, and crime would go down. But that will never happen because a certain political party wouldn’t survive if all the groups they’re “helping” started actually helping themselves.
