U.S. black rights group blames deaths on gun makers. The head of the oldest U.S. black civil rights group on Thursday testified in a lawsuit his organization brought against handgun makers that he was 'tired of going to teen-agers' funerals' and blamed the gun industry.
Kweisi Mfume, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn that he became an anti-gun advocate because of the violence he witnessed as a child.
Lawsuits against gun makers have not had much success, but the NAACP is arguing in a trial that opened on Monday that gun violence disproportionately kills poor, urban blacks and it accuses gun companies of not doing enough to stop it. [FirearmNews.com]
The irony is that, as the head of an unofficial branch of the Democratic Party, Mfume has personally done more to promote violence in poor urban neighborhoods than every gun company ever has.
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