Nunc Pro Lunch

The No Guns sticker is used to prevent firearms violence across the United States.

“Whatever the [Violence Policy Center]’s intent may be, the gun control group indirectly concludes that black communities must be disarmed” So says Bob Owen at Pajamas Media. He continues:

The VPC and the left-wing foundations that bankroll it have decided that black-on-black crime is unacceptably high, and they believe the best way to handle that is to make it more difficult for African-Americans to legally obtain handguns. The VPC refuses to even touch on the cultural issues that are the most significant variable in the massive discrepancy between the rate of black homicide victims (20.86 per 100,000) and white homicide victims (3.11 per 100,000). The VPC also won’t acknowledge that the vast majority of African-American homicide victims are murdered by young African-American men. Identifying, targeting, and removing the cultural factors that most specifically contribute to this problem would seem to be the most responsible way to decrease the excessive violence rates, but the VPC’s goal clearly isn’t problem resolution. … The goal of the Violence Policy Center in this report is the goal of the group in every report it has ever issued: an erosion of gun rights for all Americans, with the ultimate goal being the prohibition of all firearms save those under state control. Towards that totalitarian end, the VPC does not seem to have any qualms about advocating a return to racist policies that left African-American communities helpless targets for most of a century. Nor does Sugarman or his group explain how disarming law-abiding blacks will make them anything other than victims for those that refuse to follow existing prohibitions against murder.

More about the Violence Policy Center lives here.

We’ve believed for years that most of the really pernicious racism in this country comes from the progressive/left.  It doesn’t get much notice, largely because it goes along with the elite’s general contempt for the masses and merges into a larger, misanthropic orientation.  The conservative=racist trope is a convenient way of demonizing political opponents without having to bother with constitutional or factual niceties.

Kansas recently enacted concealed-carry legislation, which allows law-abiding citizens to get permits to carry firearms.  Our Attorney General has information about the permits, along with a list of links to regulations and forms, here.