[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? You would definitely need an Ivy League education to figure that out. We had better send an urgent public service announcement to parents everywhere.

And the liberal researcher has even begun to grasp that violence springs from human beings although it is still implied in the article that the problem is really guns. No one mentions that criminals often die getting shot by police or that their are many other means of violent death that criminals face.

[rbg81]

That’s funny. I’ve had social interactions my whole life and never felt the need for gun violence.

[Red in Blue PA]

Who woulda thunk it?/s

[bigheadfred]

apropos of nothing you either hate architects or you REALLY effing hate them

[Jack Hydrazine]

You are defined by the company you keep. Sometimes that definition becomes dead.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Blacks are only 12% of the population but commit 50% of the murders, but it's worse than that because most of those murders are committed by young black males who are only 3% of the population.

Remove black crime statistics from US crime statistics and we are as peaceful as Sweden.

We don't have a gun problem. We have a Trayvon problem.

[HChampagne]

This smells like a Federally sponsored study.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[rellimpank]

—maybe the copper-lead “injections” common in our urban paradises could be thought of as a vaccination—the recipient commonly doesn’t commit violence again-—

[ansel12]

Science is overlooking a totally baffling connection between disease and criminal behavior.

Gun violence, rape and murder, and sickle cell anemia, seem to cluster together.

[Iron Munro]

[1010RD]

Papachristos says it makes sense to look at the spread of gun violence like the spread of a disease or an epidemic.

He's right at that point and the vector is liberalism/Progressivism/Socialism.

Kill the family, ruin the incentives to work, and a culture that glorifies evil and here's where you end up.

[pallis]

My yard is often full of brown, Mexican kids, Pueblo Indian kids, blonde headed kids, ranging in age and size from grade school kids to young middle schools kids. The big kids look after the little kids, and include them in whatever they are doing, riding bikes, digging holes, making a fort, throwing the football, a baseball, or playing games. They do this with little or no adult interjection. New kids are always welcome and included in the group. I’ve watched this process for several years now. None of them are rich, or even well off, and some of them are poor. 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.

[Travis McGee]

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/

[Gritty]

That sounds like the advice I always gave to my kids; "If you hang around with losers, you will become a loser like them!"

[imardmd1]

Fee, what an original thesis! (/sarc)

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

[Reeses]

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.

[3Fingas]

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

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

“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.

[patriotsblood]

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

[Disambiguator]

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?