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Originally Posted by TarJak
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It would not be sporadic, it would be deafening, if the mayhem in Chicago was race-related. If African-Americans were being gunned down in their hundreds by white Americans that would be a global story and receive blanket coverage in America.
But the violence in Chicago is overwhelmingly non-racial. The victims are mostly African-American. The shooters are mostly African-American. The rate of inter-racial murder in the US is low given the huge number of guns in the country and the amount of crime.
With black-on-black violence the media tend to avert their gaze and instead fret about poverty and inequality.
The Chicago story can't be about gun laws, because Chicago is not an easy place to obtain handguns or rifles. Its gun laws are among the most strict in the nation. Chicago shows that culture is more important than law. It also supports the adage that when guns are outlawed, only outlaws have guns. And Chicago has plenty of outlaws, via a robust gang culture in poor neighbourhoods.
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I know it's old, and I know it's politics', but it still nails it.