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To: marktwain

Hispanics are less clear. That is, in the gun control states, Hispanics are much more prone to gun violence. However, if you look at Hispanics on a national level, their gun violence rates are about the same as for non-Hispanic white people.

Black people, however, stick out like a sore thumb no matter where they are. Even in Arizona, where blacks are only 4.5% of the population, about 300,000 total, their annual gun violence rate approaches 25 per 100,000.


14 posted on 05/07/2013 7:21:07 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Best WoT news at rantburg.com)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy; All

“Gun violence” does not make sense as a metric. I am sure that you have seen my posts on “hospital deaths”.

The only metric that makes sense here is overall murder rates and overall violent crime.

If “gun violence” went up, but overall violent crime and murder rates went down, that would be a good thing.


15 posted on 05/07/2013 7:52:25 PM PDT by marktwain (The MSM must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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