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The proliferation of firearms is a factor, but the main driver is income inequality and racism. You can go to a wealthy white neighborhood in a hard-right plac
by alphonsegaston 9y ago
The proliferation of firearms is a factor, but the main driver is income inequality and racism.
You can go to a wealthy white neighborhood in a hard-right place like Texas and there will be plenty of guns. But the cops won’t feel the need to dress up like soldiers and kill people for minor offenses.
Enforcing the kind of economic system where the poor have few ways to carve out a better life for themselves necessitates violence. Wage stagnation and an ever-increasing criminalization of poverty pushes more and more people into contact with the police. And austerity politics ensures that there is nothing to respond to any form of crisis with except the police.
- TheAdamAndChe 9y ago> You can go to a wealthy white neighborhood in a hard-right place like Texas and there will be plenty of guns. But the cops won’t feel the need to dress up like soldiers and kill people for minor offenses. The video of the cop executing an innocent civillian[1] and getting away with it kind of disproves this statement. I agree that inequality and poverty are the issues, and I agree that there is a correlation between certain races and poverty, but I don't believe that the issue is just racism. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M62Va6Ft2cw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M62Va6Ft2cw