The horrible actions of one lone psychopath at a Sikh Temple in Minnesota, has American Liberals on the Gun Control Warpath…again.

Reuters.com has the story:

President Barack Obama said on Monday that mass killings like the shooting rampage at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin were occurring with “too much regularity” and should prompt soul searching by all Americans, but he stopped short of calling for new gun-control laws.

“All of us are heart-broken by what happened,” Obama told reporters at the White House a day after a gunman opened fire on Sikh worshippers preparing for religious services, killing six before he was shot dead by a police officer.

But when asked whether he would push for further gun-control measures in the wake of the shootings, Obama said only that he wanted to bring together leaders at all levels of American society to examine ways to curb gun violence.

That echoed his pledge last month in a speech in New Orleans to work broadly to “arrive at a consensus” on the contentious issue after a deadly Colorado shooting spree highlighted the problem in an election year.

But like his earlier comments, Obama offered no timetable or specifics for such discussions and did not call outright for tighter gun control laws.

Talk of reining in America’s gun culture is considered politically risky for Obama, who is locked in a tight race against Republican challenger Mitt Romney for November election.

“All of us recognize that these kinds of terrible, tragic events are happening with too much regularity for us not to do some soul searching to examine additional ways that we can reduce violence,” Obama said at an Oval Office ceremony to sign an unrelated bill.

But he added, “As I’ve already said, there are a lot of elements involved in it.” The Democratic president has made a point of emphasizing his support for the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment, which covers the right to bear arms.

White House spokesman Jay Carney reiterated, however, that Obama remained in favor of renewing an assault weapons ban but pointed out “there has been reluctance by Congress” to pass it.

Obama said the FBI was still investigating the temple shooting, but if it turned out it was ethnically motivated, the American people would “immediately recoil.”

“It would be very important for us to reaffirm once again that in this country, regardless of what we look like, where we come from, who we worship, we are all one people,” he said.

Uh huh.

Meanwhile, in my hometown of Memphis, Tennessee:

Lt. Joe Scott stands at the master board that tracks homicides for the Memphis Police Department.

91 homicides this year so far.

Scott says, “This year has been extremely busy. Its been the busiest year I can recall.”

Its not record pace. That was 213 in 1993. Memphis is on pace for 180.

But surprisingly… Memphis’ Homicide Rate is more than four times what New York City’s was last year.

Last year in New York… One in every 15,079 people were murdered.

In Memphis this year… Its one in every 3,734.

So what are people in Memphis killing each other over?

Scott continues, “This year there just seems to be a lot of neighborhood arguing.”

Argument is the number 1 motive this year… A third of homicides, 30… Started with an argument… One over five dollars… Another between two brothers arguing who was the better parent.

“And just people that for whatever reason cannot resolve conflicts in a civil manner.”

The second most common motive is robbery. 18 homicides this year began with a robbery. Up 25 percent from last year. Scott says more people are resisting.

Scott says, “And that seems to be a growing trend to resist the robber not give them what they demanded during the course of the robbery.”

That is proving deadly.

The average age of victims this year in Memphis is 30.5…. Older than some might think. Chances are you’ll know your killer… 71 percent this year have.

But the way Memphians are dying is no surprise…. by gunfire… 72 of 91 homicides so far were committed with a gun.

And that’s one of the reasons folks like me left Memphis for DeSoto County, Mississippi years ago…but, I digress.

Memphis, like Chicago, has a big problem with black-on-black homocide.  But, no one will talk about it.

Why is no one trying to come to grips with this epidemic of violence going on in America’s cities, including Obama’s adoptive hometown?

In April, theblaze.com reported

More than 500 people under the age of 21 were killed in Chicago in 2008. This figure fell only slightly in 2009 and 2010 and, of course, does not represent the many others who have been shot or injured as a result of these attacks. Records reveal that nearly 80 percent of youth homicides occurred in 22 black or Latino communities on Chicago’s South and West sides.

In just the first three months of 2012, 109 people have already been murdered in the city of Chicago.

…A 2007 special report released by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, reveals that approximately 8,000 — and, in certain years, as many as 9,000 African Americans are murdered annually in the United States. This chilling figure is accompanied by another equally sobering fact, that 93% of these murders are in fact perpetrated by other blacks. The analysis, supported by FBI records, finds that in 2005 alone, for example, African Americans accounted for 49% of all homicide victims in the US — again, almost exclusively at the hands of other African Americans.