Charleston church shooting: Without gun control, racism will keep killing black people

[NCTraveler]

71. Do you have a link? TIA.

Although, to think the segregation of society, and the flooding of guns onto the streets, isn't based in an inherently racist system; would be wrong.

"Black Americans are more than twice as likely to die from gun violence than whites, according to a new study that surveyed more than a decades' worth of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Between 2000 and 2010, the death rate due to firearm-related injuries was more than 18.5 per 100,000 among blacks, but only nine per 100,000 among whites. For Hispanics, it was just over seven per 100,000, and for all other races it was just below 3.5 per 100,000."

"In Washington D.C., for instance, the death rate associated with firearms is more than thirteen and a half times for African Americans what it is for whites."

"No state has as wide a gap as New Jersey, where black people are four and a half times as likely to die from gun violence than whites. In Illinois, the state with the second largest divide, African Americans are roughly four and a quarter times as likely; in Massachusetts, the third most divided, black people are just over four times as likely; and in Michigan, the fourth most divided, black people are just under four times as likely."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/09/19/the-racial-divide-in-americas-gun-deaths/