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Study: Americans safe from gun violence except in schools, malls, airports, movie theatres, workplaces, streets, own home

Defenders of stop-and-frisk and racial profiling have made me break my public silence about the night I almost died

The calls for stricter gun control laws are not enough. Although the gun murder rate in some large cities is down, the causes of urban gun violence remain the real problem. At the June 1966 gang summit, Dr. King asked Chicago’s gangs to channel their energies into nonviolent protest of poverty and inequality. He tried to imprint upon the young men gathered at the Sheraton that violence was futile, and would likely get them nowhere but a grave or a prison cell.