Originally Posted by host

My posts after that, were replies to Baraka's questions, points, challenges...the main point is that gun control, if the examples of the disparity in violent crime stats is an indication, should be up to local officials. Gun control appears to be needed much less in San Jose/Santa Clara, than it does in DC, Prince George's, and in Dekalb.... We have the added burden in our society that it is politically incorrect to examine or discuss whether violent crime is a cultural or an ethnic trait.

It does not seem to be rooted in conditions of poverty, but high incidence of violent crime is most prevalent in highly African American populated areas in the US, irregardless of average income and education levels.

This is curious, since a dramatically large percentage of black males of an age group most prone to criminal activity, is already incarcerated.