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The color of murder and gun violence in New York
Washington Post ^
| 11/10/2010
| Jonathan Capehart
Posted on 11/16/2010 5:01:59 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: ArrogantBustard
I bet that if the analysis were done with knives or lead pipes, that the results would be very much the same story as it is with guns. In which case, the entire gun angle is destroyed - unless one also wishes to get knives and lead pipes off the streets. How about the demographics of people killed with large chunks of asphalt? I bet that would be the same, too. But getting asphalt off the streets is going to be difficult.
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posted on
11/16/2010 6:30:46 AM PST
by
coloradan
(The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
To: Mr. K
This is a good example of “hate facts.”
To: Altura Ct.
In short, 95.1 percent of all murder victims and 95.9 percent of all shooting victims in New York City are black or Hispanic.You mean, "Law and Order" got it wrong? Inconceivable.
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posted on
11/16/2010 6:37:41 AM PST
by
wbill
To: Altura Ct.
What percentage of the victims and murderers came from single parent families or unwed mothers? If govt can punish people for behaviors that cost the money (like smoking and overeating), why not reduce or eliminate benefits for out of wedlock mothers? While we’re at it, the cost of AIDS is huge as well. How about some PSAs denouncing these activities?
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posted on
11/16/2010 6:39:53 AM PST
by
Hacklehead
(Note to Leftists- We Will Bury You (politically)
To: WayneS
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posted on
11/16/2010 6:52:50 AM PST
by
Gigantor
(2012...sometimes you have to flush twice.)
To: Altura Ct.
Politically incorrect factoid: If you eliminate the black and Hispanic crime statistics, the crime rates of the USA look more like those of the more peaceful European nations (i.e. Switzerland).
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posted on
11/16/2010 6:58:57 AM PST
by
Little Ray
(The Gods of the Copybook Heading, with terror and slaughter return!)
To: ArrogantBustard
But new alliances must be formed between the two to get guns off the streets and to break the "stop snitching" culture...
Using the grabber logic of blaming the object and not the user of the object, couldn't we make a persuasive case for ripping up the streets? Then there wouldn't be any streets for the guns to be 'on.' It would be a lot easier for the city to rip up a street than to try to get criminals to hand in their guns.
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posted on
11/16/2010 7:01:50 AM PST
by
whd23
(Every time a link is de-blogged an angel gets its wings.)
To: coloradan
When I used to actually read Washington DC newspapers, I was (at first) surprised by the number of homicides committed with bare hands and shod feet. A typical crime report might include "Smith was arrested in connection with the
stomping death of Jones last night in the 400 block of ..."
It's not the tools. It's the fools.
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posted on
11/16/2010 7:06:54 AM PST
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: Altura Ct.
No fair profiling. After all, it's everybody who's doing it!
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posted on
11/16/2010 7:09:28 AM PST
by
Gritty
(Political correctness is no longer just annoying. ItÂ’s deadly. - Lori Ziganto)
To: Altura Ct.
Can one conclude that New York’s strict gun laws have a disproportionately impact on the black community?
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posted on
11/16/2010 7:29:07 AM PST
by
monocle
To: Altura Ct.
Ah for the good old days when a person's safety depended on themselves.
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posted on
11/16/2010 7:44:00 AM PST
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(I visited GEN TOMMY FRANKS Military Museum in HOBART, OKLAHOMA! Well worth it!)
To: Altura Ct.
Uh oh.......somebody owes John Rocker an apology.
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posted on
11/16/2010 8:06:34 AM PST
by
The Toll
The numbers are the consequence of a breakdown of the family, with tens of thousands of children raised like feral animals, without guidance, without discipline, without a sense of right and wrong. Add a subculture of permanent racial/ethnic grievance which pardons all individual deviant behavior as somehow society's fault, and what else could you expect?
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11/16/2010 8:26:05 AM PST
by
Godwin1
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Ah for the good old days when a person's safety depended on themselves.
I have a friend, a Schützenbruder, who grew up in New York City and is of mixed ancestry (Scottish, East Indian, African). Now, in his mid-eighties, he was drafted in the segregated army shortly after WWII. Following several incidents during his teens, he has carried a pistol both illegally in NYC and outside the city legally with a permit. He has lots of interesting and amusing stories from his younger days, including one incident in which he claims his life was probably saved by the intercession of Murder Incorporated. He spent his adult life as a teacher of science and thinks he has turned around a handful of his students. For the rest, and their culture, he despairs.
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posted on
11/16/2010 9:55:38 AM PST
by
Hiddigeigei
("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
To: Altura Ct.
It surely must be racist to be pointing out facts. How dare you! ;-)
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posted on
11/16/2010 11:07:17 AM PST
by
TexasRepublic
(Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
To: pingman
Do such race based threads that tend to be popular and attract so many comments (mostly for the sake of ridicule)somewhat undermine the premise that we conservatives are “color blind”?
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