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Gun Violence Significantly Increased by Social Interactions
U.S. News & World Report ^ | November 14, 2013 | Allie Bidwell

Posted on 11/16/2013 11:37:29 AM PST by Q-ManRN

The network in question consists of more than 3,700 high-risk individuals – young, African-American males from a poor neighborhood – who were clustered into a network by instances of co-offending, meaning each person in the group had been arrested with another person.

Papachristos says it makes sense to look at the spread of gun violence like the spread of a disease or an epidemic, comparing it to how people contract HIV. Much like the roles needle sharing and unprotected sex play in the spread of HIV, a person's behaviors and personal associations play a role in the spread of gun violence homicides, he says.

"It's the behavior of sharing needles that puts you at risk for contracting HIV, not simply being poor and black and living in a certain neighborhood," Papachristos says. "The same is true with violence. It's who you hang around with that gets you in trouble."

(Excerpt) Read more at usnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; gunviolence; yaleuniversity
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To: Q-ManRN

The CW2 Cube: Mapping the Meta-terrain of Civil War 2

http://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2010/07/30/bracken-the-cw2-cube-mapping-the-meta-terrain-of-civil-war-two/


21 posted on 11/16/2013 12:28:52 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: pallis

bump

That sounds like the way it should be


22 posted on 11/16/2013 12:30:11 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: Q-ManRN
That sounds like the advice I always gave to my kids; "If you hang around with losers, you will become a loser like them!"
23 posted on 11/16/2013 12:35:55 PM PST by Gritty (You can't fix crazy any more than you can fix stupid. Obamacare was never going to work.-Steve Deace)
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To: Q-ManRN
Fee, what an original thesis! (/sarc)

Even my grandmother knew, "Birds of a feather flock together." You need a PhD to figure this out?

24 posted on 11/16/2013 12:37:57 PM PST by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: Q-ManRN

The message is: pay no attention to city crime rates. You are reasonably safe in a Democrat ghetto if you don’t socialize much with all the HIV carriers, drug injectors, and thugs surrounding you in three dimensions. Just blame the victim for their poor taste in friends.


25 posted on 11/16/2013 12:38:19 PM PST by Reeses
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To: pallis
The things I’ve noticed that they have in common are two parent families, and extended families that love them, and work to raise them right.

You realize of course, you are totally, completely, 100% non PC, but I agree with you :-)

26 posted on 11/16/2013 12:39:17 PM PST by Mark17 (Chicago Blackhawks: Stanley Cup champions 2010, 2013. Vietnam Veteran, 70-71)
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To: 1010RD
Blacks aged 10-24 committing murder at astronomical rate

Murder Most Swedish

27 posted on 11/16/2013 12:43:28 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
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To: rbg81

Lay a gun on the table. Walk away. Wait awhile. Notice that it never fires itself?

Screw gun-hating never fired one liberals


28 posted on 11/16/2013 12:43:33 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: rellimpank

I wonder to what extent the decreasing murder rate is attributable to murderers being murdered.


29 posted on 11/16/2013 1:22:38 PM PST by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: Q-ManRN

Where can I get grant money doing useless studies of things we all know by common sense?


30 posted on 11/16/2013 1:42:20 PM PST by 3Fingas (Sons and Daughters for Freedom and Rededicaton to the Principles of the U.S. Constitution...)
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To: 3Fingas

Seems like everyone else gets the money, doesn’t it?


31 posted on 11/16/2013 2:02:55 PM PST by Q-ManRN (Progressivism is regressive!)
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To: gundog
I wonder to what extent the decreasing murder rate is attributable to murderers being murdered.[?]

.. or permanently rehabilitated?

32 posted on 11/16/2013 2:07:59 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Q-ManRN

“Papachristos says it makes sense to look at the spread of gun violence like the spread of a disease or an epidemic, comparing it to how people contract HIV.”

And, whenever the opportunity presents itself, we quarantine these disease carriers in prisons.


33 posted on 11/16/2013 2:35:22 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (War on Terror news at rantburg.com)
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To: Q-ManRN

This is exactly why 30-round mags were invented—feral crowd control.


34 posted on 11/16/2013 2:48:54 PM PST by patriotsblood
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To: gundog

—yep—I often thought during the last Crips-Bloods “war” in Las Vegas that the next murder most likely “solved” the last one—


35 posted on 11/16/2013 3:42:05 PM PST by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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To: Q-ManRN
It's who you hang around with that gets you in trouble

I'm glad I was sitting down when I read that. Who knew?

36 posted on 11/16/2013 3:57:43 PM PST by Disambiguator
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Remove black crime statistics from US crime statistics and we are as peaceful as Sweden.

As long as you remove crimes committed by Muslims in Sweden.

37 posted on 11/16/2013 3:58:41 PM PST by dfwgator (Fire Muschamp.)
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To: 1010RD

Google “The Color of Crime”


38 posted on 11/16/2013 4:03:42 PM PST by Rodney Dangerfield (Q: How do you brainwash a liberal? A: Give them an enema.)
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To: Q-ManRN

Never bring a sociologist to a gunfight.


39 posted on 11/16/2013 4:21:53 PM PST by bunkerhill7 (`)
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To: Q-ManRN
Here is a news flash from U.S. News & World Report via Yale University: if you habitually hang around with criminals, you are more likely to be shot or meet a violent end. Who would have guessed that?

I have a great new gun control plan!!!1!

Let's ban all gun possession from felons!!1111!!!

Elect me and I will make it happen, by gum.

40 posted on 11/16/2013 4:24:40 PM PST by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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