[Bgs-list] Among Thousands Of Gun Deaths, Only One Charles Foster Jr.

[CHARLES BAKER]

>From the story:

The Morris Missionary Baptist Church is nestled down a red dirt road,
in Morris, Ga., set among pine trees near the Alabama state line. Next
to the small white church lies its most recent grave site: that of
Charles Foster Jr.

While the mass killings in Newtown, Conn., and Aurora, Colo., garnered a frenzy
of news coverage, statistically, they are not the norm. Each year,
thousands of gun homicides in the U.S. — 11,000 in 2010 alone —
attract little or no media attention.

http://www.npr.org/2013/03/18/173812393/among-thousands-of-gun-deaths-only-one-charles-foster-jr

I submit that the reason gun violence doesn't get treated more
seriously is because of one sobering fact, one probably well known to
us, that came out in the story. And I quote again:

"In those killings, the victim is most often a minority male between
15 and 25 years old and shot in an urban area."

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