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LiberalElite

(14,691 posts)
Wed Nov 25, 2015, 08:49 PM Nov 2015

ProPublica: How the Gun Control Debate Ignores Black Lives

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-gun-control-debate-ignores-black-lives?google_editors_picks=true
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On a drizzly afternoon in January 2013, almost a month after the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, that left 20 first-graders dead, more than a dozen religious leaders assembled in Washington, D.C.

They had been invited by the Obama administration to talk about what the country should do to address gun violence. Vice President Joe Biden had been meeting with victims and advocates all day, and he arrived so late that some in the room wondered whether he would come at all. When he finally walked in, the clergy started sharing their advice, full of pain, some of it personal. “The incidents of Newtown are very tragic,” Michael McBride, a 37-year-old pastor from Berkeley, California, recalled telling Biden. “But any meaningful conversation about addressing gun violence has to include urban gun violence.”
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ProPublica: How the Gun Control Debate Ignores Black Lives (Original Post) LiberalElite Nov 2015 OP
Not shocking Truprogressive85 Nov 2015 #1

Truprogressive85

(900 posts)
1. Not shocking
Wed Nov 25, 2015, 09:04 PM
Nov 2015


Gun control advocates dont come black and brown neighborhoods and these communties already have usally have the strictest gun laws.

Guess black lives dont matter to gun control advocates
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