Rahm Emanuel: "But part of this is having an honest conversation, given that the lion’s share of both the victims and the perpetrators are young African-American men."

"We have to have more investment in our children. But part of this is having an honest conversation, given that the lion’s share of both the victims and the perpetrators are young African-American men."

It's an open secret that few politicians or community leaders have the honesty and courage to address. The majority of violent crime in this country, by far, is black-on-black. Everybody knows it, but "political correctness" forbids us mention of it. Where did Rahm suddenly find the fortitude to speak truth? I heard him say it on the news, and couldn't believe my ears. Not surprisingly, the media mostly ignored the statement, it took me a a while to find reference in print. Had a conservative politician made the same statement, they would have been roasted by the liberal media. Rahm says it and it goes mostly unreported. 

Social engineering policies of the past decades have failed the black community miserably. Who decided that  African Americans have less ability, talent and mental capacity than whites and should be given preferential treatment? Oh yeah, that has been a resounding success for the black community. And that's no secret. 

According to the FBI, nearly twice as many people are killed by hands and fists each year than are killed by murderers who use rifles.

FBI crime stats story:

According to the FBI annual crime statistics, the number of murders committed annually with hammers and clubs far outnumbers the number of murders committed with a rifle. This is an interesting fact, particularly amid the Democrats' feverish push to ban many different rifles, ostensibly to keep us safe of course.
However, it appears the zeal of Sens. like Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) is misdirected. For in looking at the FBI numbers from 2005 to 2011, the number of murders by hammers and clubs consistently exceeds the number of murders committed with a rifle.
Think about it: In 2005, the number of murders committed with a rifle was 445, while the number of murders committed with hammers and clubs was 605. In 2006, the number of murders committed with a rifle was 438, while the number of murders committed with hammers and clubs was 618.And so the list goes, with the actual numbers changing somewhat from year to year, yet the fact that more people are killed with blunt objects each year remains constant.
For example, in 2011, there was 323 murders committed with a rifle but 496 murders committed with hammers and clubs.
While the FBI makes is clear that some of the "murder by rifle" numbers could be adjusted up slightly, when you take into account murders with non-categorized types of guns, it does not change the fact that their annual reports consistently show more lives are taken each year with these blunt objects than are taken with Feinstein's dreaded rifle.
Another interesting fact: According to the FBI, nearly twice as many people are killed by hands and fists each year than are killed by murderers who use rifles.

How much money and countless hours have been spent decrying the danger of "assault weapons" as the reason for so much violence, yet the FBI, which tracks the stats for all crime, tells us "rifles" (which include assault weapons) accounted for fewer murders in 2011 than "blunt objects". Rifles in fact are at the very bottom of the list when looking at the numbers, surpassed by even "hands, fists, feet", "knives or cutting instruments" and "other weapons". And it's not a "one year blip", this is how the numbers run year after year. 

See the FBI Uniform Crime Reports stats on Murder, by Types of Weapons, 2011 here.