The Unmentionable Problem Gun Control & Medication Cannot Fix


Susanne.Posel-Headline.News.Official- south.carolina.shooting.church.dylann.roof.hate.crime_occupycorporatismSusanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Co-Founder, Legacy Bio-Naturals
June 20, 2015

 

President Obama spoke at the US Conference of Mayors (USCM) about the recent shooting during a Bible study at The Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina that claimed the lives of 9 black residents; including state senator Clementa Pinckney.

Obama called this a crime that “tears at the fabric of a community [and] costs this country dearly.”

The president said that had Congress acted after the Sandy Hook shooting, the federal government “might have stopped one shooter, some families might still be whole. You all might have to attend fewer funerals.”

Although he did admit that gun laws “wouldn’t have prevented every act of violence or even most. We don’t know if [gun reform] would have prevented what happened in Charleston.”

Obama pointed to the fact that “these tragedies have become far too commonplace” in our society and having “a conversation about it and fix [it]” will only happen “when the public demands action”.

Meanwhile, presidential hopeful Governor Rick Perry had a major gaff (according to his campaign manager) when speaking about the South Carolina shooting.

When asked about the president’s response to the shooting, Perry commented : “This is the M.O. of this administration anytime there is a accident like this. You know, the president’s clear. He doesn’t like for Americans to have guns, and so he uses every opportunity, this being another one, to basically go parrot that message.”

During an interview with the media, Perry suggested that accused killer Dylann Roof was “medicated” but also referred to the “accident” as “a crime of hate”.

Angrier voices out of the National Rifle Association (NRA) came from board member Charles Cotton who blamed the killing on slain senator Pinckney who had previously voted against allowing concealed carry permits in public.

Cotton said: “[Pinckney] voted against concealed-carry. Eight of his church members who might be alive if he had expressly allowed members to carry handguns in church are dead. Innocent people died because of his position on a political issue.”

However, there isn’t a vote against a concealed carry measure by Pinckney in the South Carolina state legislative archives.

For clarification, Senator Larry Martin, chair of the South Carolina Senate Judiciary Committee (SJC) said that the state’s concealed carry laws in place do allow for permit holders to have their gun with them in a church; as long as the church has statutory authorization.

The original concealed carry law was approved in 1996 which predates Pinckney’s seat at the state senate. The reason why Pinckney has never voted against concealed carry is because the existing laws had not come up for revisions during his tenure.

But this fact has not stopped presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee from speaking about it on cable television.

Huckabee joined Cotton in blaming gun restriction on the deaths of the 9 church members, and the president for “grandstanding” on the gun control issue within “minutes or possible hours after the news first broke” about the shooting.

However, it was 14 hours after the South Carolina shooting that Obama spoke to the public about the hate crime.

And all of this back and forth over gun control restrictions and lying pundits which over-shadows the actual problem.

Obama said it himself that gun control laws would not have prevented the shooting perpetrated allegedly by Dylann Roof. But if gun control is not the problem, is it just a means by which to act out the problem?

Roof told law enforcement that he felt blacks were “taking over the world” and he wanted to start “a civil war” in order to stop them.

And perhaps this is the problem: according to statistical data , there were 784 active hate groups within the US as of 2014.

In South Carolina there are 19 known “hate groups, including 2 factions of the Klu Klux Klan and four white nationalist groups.”

Six neo-Confederate white supremacist groups are located in South Carolina; including the League of the South.

Violence from racist right-wing groups top the threats necessitating police intervention.

Daryl Johnson, former expert on right-wing terrorism for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), left the agency in 2010 after he realized that DHS was not holding hearings about the “rising white supremacist threat, but there’s been a long list of attacks over the last few years.”

Johnson added: “But they still hold hearings about Muslim extremism. It’s out of balance.”

The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) reported on statistics on hate crimes back in 2013. Their findings included:

• 5,928 incidents
• 7,242 victims

The FBI also contends that 48.5% of hate crimes are motivating by race.

Unfortunately, hate crimes often go under reported to police which askew the integrity of the data, leaving the actual numbers of victims to be unknown.





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