Putting a Stop to Inner-City Gun Violence
with Robert Cherry
Of the many important topics my friend Robert Cherry addresses in his new book, The State of the Black Family, gun violence may be the most immediately dire. In the following excerpt from this week’s conversation, Bob and I talk about both the obvious and the more subtle costs of gun violence in black communities, and why progressive DAs may be doing more harm than good.
Urban violence researcher here. Gun control advocates’ relentless focus on banning assault weapons has shifted focus away from inner city violence, which is mostly perpetrated with semi automatic handguns. The vast majority of mass shootings are also not committed with assault weapons! I have a free Substack where I analyze homicides & shootings in over 1000 cities. Please check it out. I have maps! https://open.substack.com/pub/1000citiesproject/p/mass-shootings-in-the-us-with-and?r=d65gn&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Good luck. Previously the only thing that I've seen slow this down was stop and frisk, 3 strike laws, and shootouts. (Watts and Compton area, 1992 and after.)
All of these solutions have become unfashionable.
Progressives and the media prefer midnight basketball, talking therapy or better yet, a blind eye. Currently, this is a good as it gets. Deal with it.