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Do tell, what is that one “single demographic” which is allowed to be removed from counting in the US, friend?
by op00to 5y ago
Do tell, what is that one “single demographic” which is allowed to be removed from counting in the US, friend?
- jimmaswell 5y agoIt's a correlation with poverty and gangs. If you take out gang on gang and suicide, assumung neither is relevant to you, it's true that the numbers become much better.
- op00to 5y agoDo these people deserve to die?
- jimmaswell 5y agoIf you join a gang you know what you're signing up for, and I find it hard to argue that an individual doesn't have the right to end their own life.
- op00to 5y agoOK. So just to get your point straight, you believe that we should remove all "illegal use of firearms" from violence and murder statistics so we reflect the harm and damage to people that you deem to be worthy of life? Is there ever collateral damage from a breadwinner, say, getting gunned down? Does that mean that gangster's children don't deserve life at all? Is there something special about their bloodline that makes you more likely to discount their life altogether? Let's get down to brass tacks.
- throwaway0a5e 5y ago"people who's primary source of earned income is the sale of transportation of illegal substances" Usually this group shows up in stats as "gang related crime" or something like that. Basically it's all the violence that lawful businesses don't need to use to settle business disputes because they can use the courts and threat of state violence to settle their disputes instead whereas the drug industry needs to bring it in-house.
- anders_p 5y agoBut why remove that demographic from the US statistic, before comparing with other nations? Isn't that a bit disingenuous? I'd imagine you'd see similar improvement in other countries stats, if you remove the poorest and the drug gangs.
- goto11 5y agoSo if you remove drug-related crime from the statistics, suddenly US look a lot less violent? That is a great way to solve the problem!