Speedo66
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Well, here's a new approach to gun control, and this is pretty far out even for the NY Times. If you want to keep gun ownership in the US knowing that inner city youth are killing each other with guns, then obviously you're a racist. How's that for roundabout thinking? This from a Notre Dame professor.
The early reader's comments were right on point. One mentioned that if you took away the disproportionate amount of black on black shootings, the rest of the country had stats about like that of other 1st world countries. One tongue in cheek comment, based on the writer's theory, was perhaps certain groups, if they can't control themselves with guns, shouldn't be allowed to possess them at all.
I didn't look at later comments, but the early ones were probably not what the Times was expecting. But the argument is so silly that perhaps even the typical Times reader finds it ridiculous and repulsive.
Here's the opinion article: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.co...2446C46E3616B2424FD&gwt=pay&assetType=opinion
The early reader's comments were right on point. One mentioned that if you took away the disproportionate amount of black on black shootings, the rest of the country had stats about like that of other 1st world countries. One tongue in cheek comment, based on the writer's theory, was perhaps certain groups, if they can't control themselves with guns, shouldn't be allowed to possess them at all.
I didn't look at later comments, but the early ones were probably not what the Times was expecting. But the argument is so silly that perhaps even the typical Times reader finds it ridiculous and repulsive.
Here's the opinion article: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.co...2446C46E3616B2424FD&gwt=pay&assetType=opinion