Barry addressed a sensitive issue in front of an inner city audience yesterday--violence.

"We have an entire generation of young men in our society who have become products of violence, and we are going to have to break the cycle," Obama said. "There are too many young men out there who have gone down the wrong path."

He later added, "There's a reason they go out and shoot each other, because they don't love themselves. And the reason they don't love themselves is because we are not loving them enough."

Such insights are uncommon for Democrats, but the policy recommendations to go with it were all too common.

He said the government needs to permanently reinstate an assault weapons ban and close regulatory loopholes that protect unscrupulous gun dealers.

He also said government should support and fund more after-school programs to keep kids off the streets. But some of the burden must also be shouldered by residents who need to do more to raise and protect at-risk children, he added.

This will undoubtedly be reported as a gutsy statement by Barry, but let's get serious--the real social problems that underly the violence are the result of decades of pandering by black leaders and white Democrat politicians. My son, recently returned from southern California, reported that he is convinced that blacks are now the most racist people on earth. Decades of blaming whitey for all the problems have produced a cancer on the black community that refuses to accept accountability. Blessed is the young black man with a father who raised his own sons and supported his family.

Those who weren't so lucky are running the streets with guns.

Of course this is true here in Utah as well...but they're hunting deer and elk.