[Marxism] 'Negroes with Guns' - prologue and Chapter One

[Louis Proyect]

Mike Friedman wrote:
> 
> You of all people should know, Walter, that maybe three quarters of the 
> population in Nicaragua, Venezuela, and other countries in Latin America
> own guns. Yet, the rate of gun-related violence is far lower there than it
> is here. Why? Could it be that guns, per se, are not the problem?

Actually, Michael Moore makes the same point. He goes to a Canadian town 
where just about everybody owns a gun (used for hunting) but there has 
never been a shooting.