1:03:00
weren't being taken off kids
in the city of Flint,
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but were being taken off of kids
out in the out-county area,
1:03:06
in the suburban communities.
And--
1:03:10
- I didn't think that's
what you were gonna say.
1:03:12
I thought you were gonna say
that it's all these black kids
1:03:15
in the inner-city schools
that had these guns.
1:03:17
- No, that's...
1:03:20
We've never really had many
problems with guns in the city.
1:03:25
Not to say that we haven't;
we've had some.
1:03:27
But that's never been
the biggest problem.
1:03:29
The biggest problem has been
the gun possession
1:03:32
by these adolescents
in suburbia.
1:03:35
- How'd you get a gun?
1:03:38
- I stole mine. I stole it
from a friend of mine.
1:03:41
His dad owns a bunch of guns.
1:03:43
- What we're you doing
with the stolen guns?
1:03:45
- We went down to Detroit
and started selling them.
1:03:47
'Cause I can get, like, a buck
fifty a pop for a 9-millimetre.
1:03:51
- Oh, really. Who were you trying
to sell them to?
1:03:54
- Anybody that would really want
'em. Gangs and stuff like that.
1:03:57
- Gangs in the city of Detroit?
- Yeah.
1:04:00
- Black?
- Uh, predominantly. Yeah.
1:04:02
- Yeah. So now you're out now,
you're okay.
1:04:04
- Yeah, I'm free now.
I'm completely clear.
1:04:06
- You can keep selling guns.
- I can't keep selling guns.
1:04:09
It's getting too risky.
Everybody knows me up here.
1:04:11
People want guns, drugs or
alcohol, they come to my house
1:04:14
and that's just too much.
1:04:15
- Yeah, too much hassle.
- Yeah.
1:04:17
- My favourite statistic in all
the research I did discovered
1:04:23
that the murder rate had gone
down by 20%. The coverage -
1:04:28
that is, how many murders are
on the evening news -
1:04:31
it went up by 600%.
1:04:34
- The American people are
conditioned by network TV,
1:04:38
by local news,
1:04:40
to believe that
their communities are
1:04:42
much more dangerous
than they actually are.
1:04:45
For example, here,
in this community,
1:04:47
crime has decreased every year
for the past eight years.
1:04:51
Yet, gun ownership,
particularly handgun ownership,
1:04:54
is on the increase.
1:04:56
- Crime rates have been
dropping, dropping, dropping.
1:04:58
Fear of crime has been going
up, up, up.