[anothersteve]

Originally Posted by Bucco

Take out the queries based on untrue, accusatory tweets, what is left....as I mentioned

Steve

[banjobob]

Where is BLM every week to quell the violence. I just read they take in millions for the cause ,wonder who is being helped.

[Chitown]

[QUOTE=ffresh;1798821]To understand the gun debate, one has to change his paradigm. It was never about saving lives. Far more people are killed every year from medical malfeasance, automobile accidents and myriad other causes. Gun control is TOTALLY about CONTROL, nothing more. With no guns, i.e. no defense, Americans would be subject to the whims of their government and defenseless to resist tyranny, as so many of The Founders admonished. There are numerous examples (Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, ad nauseum) of "death by government"; in fact, genocide is the leading cause of death among the world's populations. Our ruling elite are intimately aware of this situation and are working overtime to change this equation! Complicity among the "useful Idiots" and the "perpetually uninformed" assists their nefarious goal. Very well said. What most people don’t realize is that the 2nd amendment is not only the right to bear arms but it was written by our founders because they knew that some day American citizens could be ruled by a dictator or a ruler who with the help of others at his direction disregarded or illegally changed the constitution and ruled with a slick tongue. The guns like it or not was a way to form a militia and overthrow the government to regain control by the people

[kcrazorbackfan]

13% of our population (blacks) commit 54% of the murders in America.

Let that sink in.....

[mady101]

Originally Posted by blueash

There have been dozens and dozens of threads started by a cadre of people on totv, all pointing to the deaths in Chicago or other cities under the category of black on black crime. Here is another thread on the same theme. Claiming that BLM is a joke, that their focus is in the wrong place that if they cared about Black lives they'd do something about Chicago.

BLM has a very specific focus. It was founded to shine a light on violence by the government against their community. The organization is not there to investigate street crime. There is a police force to do that. But there was seemingly no one holding police accountable for their actions. In fact it was apparent to many there was a blue wall of silence where cops didn't break the code of silence. Their omerta.

From one of the BLM websites [there is no single BLM organization it is not centralized but is local chapters loosely working to the same goal]

Black Lives Matter began as a call to action in response to state-sanctioned violence and anti-Black racism. Our intention from the very beginning was to connect Black people from all over the world who have a shared desire for justice to act together in their communities. The impetus for that commitment was, and still is, the rampant and deliberate violence inflicted on us by the state.

When criminal commit crimes that is a police issue. When police commit crimes that is a whole different problem. It is the abuse of force by those sworn to protect and serve that is the focus, and a necessary focus as evidenced by so many videos now widely seen, that some police are using excessive force. There was just another case where 2 cops tasered a victim to death. Over 50 shocks were given. In this case their victim was a white naked male who per news reports never made an aggressive move toward the cops, who violated department policy in this murder.

BML is shining a light on the ugly dark truth that there are cops who are poorly trained, who are bullies, who don't belong on the force, who are racists. Many, not all, of the victims of these bad cops have been POC. Holding the state responsible for actions of the state is the mission of BLM. Lots of organizations have narrow missions even when there are larger problems. Is the American Cancer Society bad because it ignores that more people die from heart disease? Is the Komen foundation bad because more women die from lung cancer than breast cancer?

BLM is focused on one issue in the Black community. Deaths and violence caused by the state. All it takes is some good cops to stop the bad ones. Even if the good cops get punished by the system.