Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.
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I'm from Detroit. I was from a kind of violent neighbourhood.
I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot.
Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.
I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain.
Cop families have guns in their houses.
Guns do kill. Unlike cars, that is all they do.
The vast majority of people who have guns never hurt anybody.
Gun-related violence and murders are concentrated among blacks and Latinos in big cities.
You ingest the automobile in the very air of Detroit. Or at least you did in the 1940s and 1950s.