If you outlaw guns, then only....

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Originally Posted by wolf

If it's about "pride," then what's different in the nature or nuture of young black men that they feel the need to kill each other over stupid crap like that?

They don't have much else to be proud of (and this goes for Hispanics, White, Asians, all who get into this society). For the most part they come from a poor family with a lack of unity, schools that are underfunded with teachers who are overworked and who are not even "good" teachers because those schools cannot attract them, the unemployment rate is high, substance abuse is high...and the upper classes look down upon them and make them feel worthless. They are acting out and if they cannot make themselves respectable to the upper classes, atleast they can make their own peers respect/fear them.
That is why reform is so necessary, we need to concentrate our resources on improving schools, healthcare, employment agencies, scholorship funding, afterschool programs, immigration laws, ect ect. NOT on banning guns, stopping those awful gays from ruining heterosexual marriage, building more prisons, jailing homeless and prostitutes (what a ridiculous law!), all these things and more waste money that could go towards mending our societal problems at the root, not just pruning the leaves.