Jesse Jackson: The Gun-Control Activist That Can't Shoot Straight

Apparently, Rev. Jesse Jackson wants to use Trayvon Martin's death as a means to repeal the "Stand Your Ground" and other related gun laws such as the "Castle Law", that exist in 24 states.  The hypocrisy here is that he using a single incident to try and overturn laws that have been created from the desperation over an increasing number of shooting deaths at the hands of home invaders and liquor and convenience store robbers.  All you have to do is Google "killed in a home invasion" to see what is actually driving state legislatures to consider such laws.  People are frightened.  By far, the incidents of home invasion killings far exceed the single Trayvon death.

Mr. Jackson would better serve the Black community by going back to the City of Chicago where there are no "Stand Your Ground" laws and where Black-on-Black shooting deaths are completely out of control. This. in a city that is supposed to have the strictest gun laws in the nation. In most cases, the people being killed don't even have a chance to stand their ground.  They are simply executed for, maybe, having an exclusive pair of shoes; or, sitting on their front porch; or simply sleeping in their own beds.

If Jackson wants to be a gun-control activist, he needs to work on changing the mentality among Black youths that guns are a necessary part of life. That killing of any kind, is a criminal, moral, and spiritual offense. Maybe if Jackson and other leaders would start condemning the amount of prevalent Black on Black crimes and stop focusing on obscure, questionable racial shootings, more Blacks would be saved from death and imprisonment in the process.

Lastly, in Chicago, the murder rate rose 60% in just the first 3 months of 2012 as compared to the same period last year.  Of the 120 murders in that period, 101 were shooting deaths, and the majority of those killed were Black. Yet, Jackson has spent the last month highlighting a single shooting in Florida that does not, in any way,  indicate a widespread problem.  Talk about taking aim at the wrong target!