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In the U.S., gun violence kills blacks at twice the rate of whites
LA Times ^ | 9-18-14 | Amina Khan

Posted on 09/19/2014 10:23:32 AM PDT by TurboZamboni

The risk of dying from a gunshot wound is twice as high for African Americans as it is for white Americans, according to a new study based on 11 years’ worth of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Between 2000 and 2010, the rate of firearm-related fatalities in the U.S. was 9.05 per 100,000 people for whites and 18.51 per 100,000 people for blacks. When factoring in the 3.38 deaths per 100,000 people of other races, the country’s overall gun-related death rate was 10.21 per 100,000 Americans, researchers reported Thursday in the journal BMJ Open.

That racial discrepancy represents an improvement from the 1990s, the researchers noted: In 1993, gun fatalities were three times more common among blacks compared to whites.

Over the 11 years of the study, at least 335,609 Americans were killed by guns. (The CDC data almost certainly understates the true toll of gun violence, the researchers wrote.) These deaths include murders, suicides and accidental shootings.

(Excerpt) Read more at touch.latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banglist; cdc; guncontrol; racist; series
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1 posted on 09/19/2014 10:23:32 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
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To: TurboZamboni
Those wasculy racist guns
2 posted on 09/19/2014 10:25:50 AM PDT by Politically Correct (A member of the rabble in good standing)
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To: Politically Correct

I tell ya. Turn your back and they’re up to mischief.


3 posted on 09/19/2014 10:27:29 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: TurboZamboni

Gun violence...uh?

Guns can’t be violent, people are violent.

Blacks kill blacks at twice the rate of whites...


4 posted on 09/19/2014 10:27:59 AM PDT by EBH (And the angel poured out his cup...)
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To: TurboZamboni

If most guns are black how can they be racist?


5 posted on 09/19/2014 10:29:14 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Things are only going to get worse.)
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To: TurboZamboni

Must be lots of racists out there shooting all those aspiring rap artists!
/ sarc


6 posted on 09/19/2014 10:29:16 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee! First one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: TurboZamboni

Yeah well, who is on both sides of the gun?

They forgot the part where blacks kill each other with guns all the time.


7 posted on 09/19/2014 10:30:04 AM PDT by dforest
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To: TurboZamboni

Black men are 6% of the population and commit 50% of murders.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2871673/posts?page=43#43


8 posted on 09/19/2014 10:30:39 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: TurboZamboni

I knew that they would got to this, I just did not know when.


9 posted on 09/19/2014 10:31:17 AM PDT by sport
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To: EBH
Holder's practical and balanced response to this problem is to require all white people to wear KKK hoods and bullseyes on their backs and be forced to walk alone in public housing projects.

The Social Justice Solution.

10 posted on 09/19/2014 10:32:33 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: TurboZamboni
Annually, 5,000 to 6,000 black men are murdered with guns. Black men amount to only 6% of the population. Yet of the 30 Americans on average shot to death each day, half are black males.

After Sandy Hook, President Obama introduced an initiative to reduce gun violence. He laid out a litany of tragedies: the children of Newtown, the moviegoers of Aurora, Colo. But he did not mention gun violence among black men.

Why would Obama completely ignore the demographic that represents a full 50% of all gun-related deaths?

11 posted on 09/19/2014 10:32:50 AM PDT by South40 (Hillary Clinton was a "great secretary of state". - Texas Governor Rick Perry)
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“California was singled out in the study for having “the most marked reduction” in the rate of gun deaths. The researchers said this could be the result of tough antigun laws, including eight aimed at preventing gun trafficking.”

Wow, what a stretch.

The black population has been forced out of California by the increasing numbers of violent Central American illegals. South Central, Inglewood, and other notorious black strongholds from the early days of gangsta rap are now exclusively Hispanic.

Blacks kill other blacks at higher rates than any other group. Decrease the number of blacks in a region and the murder rate declines.


12 posted on 09/19/2014 10:34:25 AM PDT by Azeem (There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo.)
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To: TurboZamboni

Does the study mention the color of the fingers on the triggers?


13 posted on 09/19/2014 10:35:28 AM PDT by all the best
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To: TurboZamboni; NFHale
RE :”In the U.S., gun violence kills blacks at twice the rate of whites “

Gun violence? Who is shooting those guns?
Other blacks?

So they need to take away whites guns?

14 posted on 09/19/2014 10:35:45 AM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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To: TurboZamboni

I think I read somewhere that if you removed the crime stats from only a few cities like Chicago, Oakland, Baltimore, etc. that the US would be considered one of the safest places on the planet.


15 posted on 09/19/2014 10:36:51 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: TurboZamboni

IIRC, a black person is about 9 times more likely to be shot by another *black* person than by a white person.

Conveniently, that very minor statistic seems to fall between the cracks.

Also, if memory serves, a *white* person is slightly more likely to be shot by a black person than a white person.


16 posted on 09/19/2014 10:36:58 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: TurboZamboni

Does this LA Slimes article indicate the reason why more blacks are killed?

Because Blacks are killing other blacks?

I didn’t think so.

But hey - if it makes the libtards happy - I’m OK with banning blacks from owning guns.


17 posted on 09/19/2014 10:37:56 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: EBH

Bingo.

And they kill blacks at many times the rate whites do.

Could be racism...

Oh Jessie, Al... pick up the white courtesy phone.


18 posted on 09/19/2014 10:39:03 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Obama and the Left are maggots feeding off the flesh of the United States.)
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To: george76

Yes, but you gotta break it down even more.

Black males under 12 and over 30 are less likely to murder. So it is actually more accurate to say that 3% of the population (young black men) commit 50% of the murders.

Maybe even 2 percent.


19 posted on 09/19/2014 10:41:22 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

“If most guns are black how can they be racist?”

I have a Henry lever gun that is high yellow.


20 posted on 09/19/2014 10:44:08 AM PDT by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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