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They also met with black ministers, the local NAACP chapter and the Latino chamber of commerce, who gave them “consistent feedback that change did happen” in the district, according to committee member Joseph G. Grassi, noting that the achievement gap between minority and white students had closed by 30 to 40 percent...
...NAACP presents gun violence as a racial issue, adducing the statistic that African-American teenagers were 16 times more likely than white teens to die from guns between 1990 and 1998. But gun violence is an issue that affects all communities, and it is a major mistake to define it to terms of black and white. Guns can kill and be wielded by anyone, and they need to be more strictly regulated to protect everyone, not any specific minority. Gun advocates comparing the suit’s tactics to those of the Ku Klux Klan are clearly off base...
...just gun control that the suit has muddled and obscured; the NAACP’s suit has also, paradoxically, distracted from the very real issue of violence in minority communities. Many of the problems cited by the NAACP relate to the shamefully slow ambulance and police response times in low-income, minority communities; the statistics to which they point should be a spur for increased government funding to these communities, so that these problems can be effectively addressed...
...this lawsuit is not the way. The NAACP has drawn attention to important issues that must be addressed, but it has helped neither of the causes for which it hopes to advocate with this mix-and-match suit...
...agree with the Staff’s dismissal of the NAACP lawsuit as nothing more than grandstanding. But we are concerned that gun control hinders the ability of those living in America’s inner cities to protect themselves from crime. Greater policing and better hospital response times in urbancommunities are measures that undoubtedly deserve our support. But the larger solution to gun violence is not to reduce the self-defense capabilities of decent, upstanding people. Rather, it is to enforce aggressively our current gun-safety statutes and to allow law-abiding citizens the right to own a potentially...