I don't think anybody has said it was a genetic other than a cultural problem in either case.In the case of blacks,whites caused the cultural problem.
ZeroJunk, I think I agree with you, but only so far as this: there's a reason why Justice has a blindfold on. Or at least is supposed to.
I'm "white". I'm a combination of Irish, Alsatian, and English who settled in Pennsylvania. I've had absolutely nothing to do with the race issue in America, and nobody in my family's history has, either.
It seems to me that my forebears came to this country because they were playing a different game here. Keep your nose clean, go to work, keep what you earn, and enjoy the right to defend yourself and your property if necessary. And if something bad happens, deal with it, either by yourself or as an extra-governmental group.
(edit: I'm not talking about vigilante justice. I'm talking about stuff like getting into a bad mortgage deal.)
People continue to come to this country because it's a good game with easy rewards. Some drawbacks, but it's the best game out there.
Some, it seems, don't understand that those are the rules to the game. Others, it seems, are in favor of changing the rules of the game to accommodate the people having trouble with it.
If you think that everyone who is having trouble with the game is black, I invite you to hang out in a Church office some time - it doesn't really matter what denomination. You're going to see all sorts of drifters floating in and out looking for handouts, not just black drifters.
Likewise, I'm only interested in protecting my ability to continue playing this game under these rules. The statement "whites caused the problem" is not only untrue, it's racist and offensive. The pdf from the original post contains stories of how whites bore arms along with the blacks!
I'm only interested in what's happening now. And right now, you can't find anyone who is seriously advocating gun control for racist reasons.
You can point to a lot of reasons why, despite the fact that they're not doing it for racist reasons, it continues to have racist, divisive results. That, I think, is why this article is important. It shows that these laws have racist results.
I am against the notion that we need to throw race around like a bargaining chip in this debate. It's counterproductive.
When I drive through Southeast DC (which is as little as possible), I don't see poor black crime-ridden neighborhoods. I see PEOPLE whose right to defend themselves has been denied, who have been raised to believe that someone else is going to take care of their problems for them. I see people who don't know the rules to the game.
I'm going to continue to preach that message, and leave race out of it. If we let Jackson and Sharpton be the only people talking about race, then they'll be the only people talking about race, and therefore the only racists.