Colorado Springs Gazette Calls Gun Bans Racially Biased

This isn’t exactly a new twist in the debate over gun bans, but more and more we’re hearing an interesting take – namely that gun bans were a way of keeping guns out of the hands of minorities, notably those who were black. The Colorodo Springs Gazette noted this in an editorial entitled “Gun bans kill black people.”

This wasn’t some spoof headline via The Onion or other satirical faux news site either. The article isn’t meant to be a joke, and there is nothing to laugh about the facts – which note the “Chicago homicides in 2010 equal the death toll of Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.” But more importantly the article hits home with this simple fact:

“Murderers like gun bans. They ignore them; their victims usually don’t.”

That remains a point too few in the mainstream miss, time and time again.