A Real and Workable Solution for the Obama Administration

8-Year-Old Gunned Down In Drive-By

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A suspect has been arrested in the shooting death of an 8-year-old girl in St. Petersburg….

…Police say more than 50 rounds from a semi-automatic assault rifle were fired into the front of the home.

First of all, let me say that I am deeply saddened by the murder of this little girl. Was the rifle the problem, or was it the person wielding it and their evil intent that is to blame? As we can clearly see, criminals already have plenty of weapons, so I can not see how disarming the law abiding public will do anything to rectify this plague of violence that is sweeping our nation. Also, the term “assault rifle” is getting a little played out. It was simply a semi automatic rifle, probably a knock off of a fully automatic real deal assault rifle. Since Mr Obama and Eric Holder are African Americans, maybe their first attempt at lowering violent crime with firearms should be to go into those neighborhoods where the gang violence is, and work to reason with *their people to give up those illegal weapons that are reportedly so abundant there. That would be a good place to start so that they can actually lower the crime statistics in America, instead of just implementing knee jerk solutions to a non existent problem when it comes to law abiding firearms owners.

Here are the incarceration statistics for 2007:

At year end 2007 in the United States there were:
3,138 Black males sentenced prisoners per 100,000 black males
1,259 Hispanic males sentenced prisoners per 100,000 Hispanic males
481 White males sentenced prisoners per 100,000 white males

• Total population of the United States: 299 million
• White: 221.3 million or about 74%
• Hispanic or Latino ethnicity: 44.3 million or about 14.8%
• Black or African American: 40.9 million or about 13.4%

*I am presenting these facts for two reasons. First of all, Mr Obama's pastor is constantly preaching about "their people", which are African Americans, which demonstrates that he is not concerned about "we" the American people as a nation as much as he is focused on one racial group of people. Gun Shy believes that if we can't pull together as a nation, then we are finished. Secondly, Eric Holder said that Americans were "cowards" when it came to honest and open dialogue about races. "We have to have the guts to be honest with each other," Holder said. Gun Shy agrees.