Perhaps you are right. My crystal ball is broken. What I do know is some history.
1. New York draft riots (July 13-16, 1863)
Historians dispute the casualties, estimating that between 1200 and 2,000 civilians were killed. And the rioters were not using guns holding 9 to 13 rounds....so, what would the body count be today?
2. Newark riots (July 12-17, 1967) Injured and dead, statistics were never compiled.
3. Riots after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (April 1968) Riots took place in than 60 cities. Washington, D.C., rioted for four days, with mass looting and injuries, and the swelling crowds at one point spread to within two blocks of the White House. Baltimore exploded into a riot, as well, and 5,000 soldiers from Fort Bragg deployed to the city to maintain order. Citizens in Chicago rioted and spread out over almost 30 blocks along West Madison Street, and the Illinois National Guard came in to assist police. Nationwide damages were well into the millions. No death or injured toll was done....but, it was widespread.
4. The Rodney King riots (April 29-May 4, 1992)
The backdrop: Rodney King, a black man on parole, led officers on a high-speed chase through Los Angeles before being caught and beaten. The beating was captured on the officer car cameras, and all four were charged with using excessive force. After a week deliberation, all four were acquitted of assault and three of the four acquitted of the excessive force charge. The verdict sent local black and Hispanic communities into a frenzy at the perceived injustice, and riots started to break out the evening of the verdict reading and lasted for days. There were many retaliatory attacks, including Reginald Denny, a white truck driver whose vicious beating was captured by a live news camera from above. All told, the riots killed 53 people, injured 2,000, and cost close to $1 billion in damages.
5. Stonewall riots (June 28, 1969)
The backdrop: Gays and lesbians were routinely shut out from mainstream society in the middle of the 20th century, from the denial of employment to being diagnosed by the American Psychiatric Association as having a sociopathic personality disturbance. New York Greenwich Village became one of the nation's foremost gay-friendly areas, including the Stonewall Inn, a bar on Christopher Street. Police raids on gay bars to harass patrons and arrest drag queens were regular, but the one in the early hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall didn't go as planned. Customers refused to cooperate or disperse, and eventually the confrontation turned violent as the sides attacked each other. The fracas led to greater protests and a higher profile for the gay rights movement.
6. The Chicago riots at the Democratic National Convention (August 28, 1968)
Following a year of assassinations and political disappointments, protestors from various groups had grown tired of the Johnson administrations handling of the Vietnam War and the growing divide in society. Many promised to show up in Chicago at the Democratic National Convention to show their displeasure. Tens of thousands of protestors descended on the city, and the biggest conflict occurred on August 28 as protestors and police began fighting. Law enforcement officers used tear gas and Mace to subdue countless civilians. When it was all over, seven people were charged with conspiracy to incite the riot, and they became known as the Chicago Seven. Some were acquitted while others were fined, but all convictions were overturned in 1972.
7. The Battle in Seattle (November 30, 1999) The World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 1999 was held in Seattle for three days in November that year. Leading up to the conference, delegates couldn't agree on an agenda and admitted that the attempt to launch new trade negotiations was being hampered by constant disagreements. The meeting was a target for participants in the anti-globalization movement, which stands in opposition to global capitalism because of its perceived abuse of the worker. On November 30, the Direct Action Network, an anarchist group, led activists to take control of major intersections and converge on the city to effectively shut it down. The move prevented delegates from reaching the convention center, but some began looting and smashing windows, which invited blowback from police. More than 600 people were arrested, some beaten in the process, and the WTO ended the meeting and reconvened it in 2001.
8. The Attica Prison riot (September 9-13, 1971)
Prisoners in New York Attica Prison were made to enjoy low standards of living in 1971, including one shower a week and one roll of toilet paper every month. Their unrest continued to grow. In August 1971, a prisoner at California's San Quentin Prison was killed attempting to escape. In response to that and other turns, almost 1,000 Attica prisoners rioted in September in an attempt to demand better living conditions. They took 33 guards hostage and began negotiating for their demands. Eventually, state police hit the building with tear gas and fired into the smoke, killing some hostages and inmates who weren't resisting. In the end, nine hostages and 48 inmates were killed, either by state police or inmates.
9. Cincinnati riots (April 2001)
Racial tensions in Cincinnati had been growing for years, exacerbated by the regular deaths of young black men killed by police or in their custody. Of the 15 men who died this way between 1995 and 2001, three were unarmed. A 19-year-old black man named Timothy Thomas was killed running from police on April 7, 2001, and it was revealed that the officers acted improperly in the situation, including failure to give Thomas time to respond to the cops commands. The night Thomas was killed, almost 200 residents showed up to protest at a city council meeting, and protestors assembled outside city hall. After being dispersed, they began rioting, which triggered more outbreaks of violence and vandalism across the city. The riots lasted for days, becoming the largest disorders of their kind since the Rodney King riots nine years before. The officer who shot Thomas was eventually tried and acquitted in a criminal trial.
10. Watts Riots (August 11-15, 1965)
Race relations were strained all over in the 1960s, and Los Angeles was no exception. Growing tension between blacks and whites and between police and civilians added fuel to the fire. A white California Highway Patrol officer pulled over and arrested a black man for driving drunk, but the growing crowd of witnesses soon turned antagonistic. The mob grew angry, and when the CHP officer wound up arresting the mans brother (also in the car) and mother, full-fledged riots broke out in the Watts section of town. Fires, violence, and looting were rampant for days, and the riots would be the biggest in L.A. history until those in 1992. The National Guard eventually came in to help. At the end of the spree, 34 people were dead, more than 2,000 injured, and almost 4,000 arrested.
And that is just 10 riots. And if you look at it, gun control was not in vogue during these time frames. Therefore, there were many more guns in the hands of whites and the rioters. And during those times, whites did outnumber blacks and Hispanics 3 to 1. One would think, if your logic hold merit, that those riots would not have taken place. They did, people got hurt, and people died. Now that gun control has taken the guns out of the hands, by encouraging through the Liberal movement, of law abiding citizens, most are now held by people that acquired them through other means. So, whites are marginally in the majority....because most Hispanics and blacks who appear white will list themselves as white, hold less weaponry than you would imagine. Also, most.....over 92 percent of all neighborhoods now have a mixture of Hispanics....who will side with whomever will pay the most or is winning in conflicts, blacks, and Muslims that do not really like either Hispanics or whites (especially Christians)..... whites are out numbered in the cities and immediate suburbs.
So, think about it.... am I really that brain dead?
moldyoldy wrote:
Talk about brain dead, Blacks are a very small minority now, Whites are the armed to the teeth gun nuts. The KKK is trying to spook people into over reacting, to get a race war started. As always, there are paid instigators who start riots and looting, usually paid by the FBI historically.