October 04, 2013
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On Sunday, the front page of The New York Times featured a dad holding a .22 with his kid under the headline, “Children and Guns: The Hidden Toll.” What a bunch of disingenuous cocksuckers. The story paints a picture of white, middle-class Americans leaving guns lying around the house so little kids can blow their heads off.
We hear about two-year-old Tristan Underhill, who accidentally shot himself with his dad’s handgun. We hear about five-year-old Matthew Dwyer, whose brother accidentally shot him. The only respite from the seemingly endless list of cute, white, dead kids are their grieving mothers holding ashes or staring listlessly into space.
I live in New York and am married to a woman, so this emotional tabloid reeks up my house every Sunday. My neighbor came over and saw the story lying on our kitchen table. “Isn”t this horrible?” she asked, pointing to a chart. I asked her how many children they”re talking about, and she said, “Oh I don”t know. I didn”t read that far.” This is why it’s so effective to use dead kids to make your point. Nobody questions you. Moms Demand Action (who all claim to be Trayvon’s mother) demanded action after the article came out. I wonder how many of them ran the numbers.
In Georgia from 1999 to 2012, the Times counted 67 children killed by guns. The Times chose a white, middle-class dad for their cover story, but the chart doesn”t tell us how many of these 67 kids were black. There are twice as many whites in Georgia as there are blacks, but they share a similar per-capita quotient of annual gun deaths. How many victims were the children of single mothers? How many of the guns found lying around the house were unregistered and belonged to drug dealers? If they were sincere about their report they”d acknowledge that outside of suicide, gun deaths”of any age”are largely a black thang. They”re also a single-mother thing. (And no, I’m not talking about DC attacker Miriam Carey, whom we heard about yesterday.) Here in New York, the map of single-parent households looks exactly like the map of gun deaths:
The Times loves single moms and hates guns, and it’s never occurred to them that the two are correlated. While The New York Times scares us into hating negligent white dads, the numbers point to the black single moms the Times glorifies.
Bloomberg keeps pushing Mayors Against Illegal Guns, but I don”t know how this city’s gun laws could be stricter. I know a guy who went to jail for owning a scuba gun. Getting caught with a BB gun will also get you put away, no matter what your lawyer says. You can”t even sell toy guns. Despite these restrictions, we still get about a murder a day, but they”re never in the neighborhoods where I go. Only 8% of our homicide victims are white. Illegal guns in New York City are owned by black kids who are the children of single mothers. Where’s that headline?
To his credit, Bloomberg may have tuned into this. His Human Resources Commissioner is launching a media campaign discouraging unwed moms from, well, being unwed moms. Good luck with that.
I love when this happens to liberals. They start out on a crusade and get slapped in the face with reality. They rail against hate speech and get stuck with blacks being anti-Semitic. They push diversity and are left with Muslims performing female circumcision. They pretend the gay lifestyle is just like ours and have to stomach the huge percentage of rent boys who are underage. If you are truly worried about gun deaths in America, go where the death toll is highest”the ghetto. It’s not dads buying their son a .22 for his birthday. It’s black kids without a dad using an illegal gun to settle a score in a drug battle. The epidemic isn”t guns. The epidemic is the decay of the black family. Almost three-quarters of them are raised by single mothers. One of the reasons behind this is the brutal incarceration rate black men either endure or subject themselves to. Black kids aren”t in danger of being shot by George Zimmerman. They”re in danger of being shot by black kids. This doesn”t fit the Times“ narrative, however, so they stick a bunch of white kids on the page and use a mother’s tears to push their agenda.
