I don’t really care about how someone is murdered but rather whether they are murdered.
The U.S. ranks 98th overall in the world in murder rate, putting us on the better side of midpack.
That said, a quick look at that list shows African/S.American countries with the highest murder rates and European/Asian countries with the lowest rates.
European-Americans have a murder rate comparable to Europeans, while African-Americans have a murder rate comparable to Africans.
The US black murder rate ~ black on black ~ is lower than that of any African nation.
We have inter-racial rates because, lo and behold, we have every race known on the face of the Earth ~ in plentiful numbers.
Even in those categories we are lower than the rates found elsewhere for inter-racial murder.
See those gun ownership rates? Americans are friendly and polite. Foreigners are nasty, churlish and murderous.
Obama wants us to be more like them.
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The U.S. ranks 98th overall in the world in murder rate, putting us on the better side of midpack.”
Exactly correct. “Firearms Homicide” or “Gun violence” or “Gun murders” are all propaganda metrics. It does not matter to a homicide victim if they are murdered by stomping or a petrol bomb. They are dead. If nasty controls on guns results in less gun murders, but more stompings, you have made things worse, not better.
To look at “firearms crime” is to stack the deck. It is propaganda from the start.