[zeestephen]

I recommend that people read the whole article.

For the “Los Angeles Times,” it is remarkably honest and balanced.

In the second and third paragraph they explicitly point out that Black and Hispanic teenagers are many, many times more likely to be shot than white kids are.

I would never expect to see that fact published in a Hard Left newspaper.

One thing did catch my attention.....

As many of you know, FBI race statistics on gun murderers combine whites and Hispanics into one group.

Thus, when a Hispanic gangbanger kills a Black gangbanger, that is reported as a white killing a Black.

The FBI has stated several reasons for combining white and Hispanics, and chief among them is that numerous studies have shown that whites and Hispanics commit murders at the same rate.

I have actually Googled a half dozen of these studies, and read them, and they do seem to confirm nearly identical rates.

However, this report states that Hispanic teenagers are THREE times more likely to be gunshot victims than white teenagers.

That tells me that Hispanic teenagers also pull the trigger more than white teenagers do.

[RandallFlagg]

One thing did catch my attention.....

As many of you know, FBI race statistics on gun murderers combine whites and Hispanics into one group.

Thus, when a Hispanic gangbanger kills a Black gangbanger, that is reported as a white killing a Black.

True.

Telling, isn't it?
Very observant of you to note this.
Well done.

[marktwain]

I do not think the FBI is telling the truth about non-hispanic whites and hispanics:

http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2013/01/european-murder-rates-compared-to.html