I knew it. Guns are racist too.
What you never see in these proggie pieces: numbers on who is doing the shooting.
Correlation doesn’t equal causation...
IQ and inability to control ones impulses play a major part in the problem as well.
Maybe they should just stop shooting each other.
>>These differences across states occur primarily because the gap between levels of disadvantage among white and black Americans differs sharply by state.
Let’s see this compared to single motherhood stats.
The only information that counts is normalized for race, gender, and income. Absolute data like this just shows bias.
crack babys?
There seems to be a mystery unidentified assailant here. Some unnamed attacker ruthlessly preying on urban blacks. The article stops just short of blaming racist white society for the fact that these people are 25 more times likely to shoot you as a white person you may encounter. Take responsibility, damnit!
But you will not hear them want to discuss the intransigent causes of such violence: the culture of violence in rap music, drug and alcohol abuse, fatherless children, and other related things helping to perpetuate the black on black violent crime problem.
The authors are also (likely in an inadvertent manner) contradicting a popular argument from the Canadian Coalition for Gun Control up here in that stricter gun control laws accompanied by lower homicide rates make Canada distinct from the United States. When in reality, taking out black on black violent crime likely results in U.S. states that immediately border Canada (like Wisconsin, Michigan, New York, and Washington) having such rates that have very little or no difference to the neighbouring Canadian province(s).
The urban murder problem is not one caused largely by innocent people dying. It is primarily thugs killing thugs.
This statement is equating incarceration and gun violence with economic opportunity.
How much of this violence is caused by financial envy ?
vs
drug related and gang/ ethnic/ tribal violence ?
There is too much missing information to draw a conclusion, except that the researchers are all from Boston Mass.,
and Anita Knopov writes for Salon, and this article comes from 11/14/17 issue of Salon.com .
Enough said when you know the sources !
What are the racial disparities if we ask of gun shot victims “Shot by whom?”
Who is doing all that shooting?
Eh? Can’t hear you...
...crickets...
—the center pie chart about a third of the way down the page pretty well tells it all—Chicago stats correlate pretty well with the rest of urban America—
And the only way it will stop is when the people in those communities demand that it stop.
The Thug culture worship would be a great place to start.
Orwellian use of the word “by” in the article.
People are not killed “by” guns.
People are killed “with” guns.
It is terrible grammar, done deliberately to make propaganda, to remove agency and volition form the person to the firearm.
I got good news and bad news.....
Move to Arizona and your chances of being murdered black are only 3.2 times that of being murdered white.
All of the so called disparity is due to gang violence, black on black crime and the huge disparity in the number of violent crimes committed by blacks vs any other race. If this study were done in such a way to filter out inner-city crimes and gun violence the disparity would drop to near zero.