I heard about this article when listening to Dennis Prager. It's by Juan Williams, an African American who most would agree is liberal.


Some stats in the article:

* Murders with guns are the No. 1 cause of death for African-American men between the ages of 15 and 34.

* In 2009, for example, the Centers for Disease Control reported that 54% of all murders committed, overwhelmingly with guns, are murders of black people. Black people are about 13% of the population.

* The Justice Department reports that between 1980 and 2008, "blacks were six times more likely than whites to be homicide victims and seven times more likely than whites to commit homicide."

* The 44,038 black children killed by guns since 1979 (when national data on the age of gun violence victims was first collected) is "nearly 13 times more" than all the black people killed by lynching in the 86-year period of 1882 to 1968.


Williams goes onto say that the big reason for these facts is the breakdown of the family in the black community.


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323869604578366882484600710.html