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Mass shootings aren't correlated with poverty. Guns are expensive. Most mass shooters are disaffected folks in the "middle class" who have money to acquire wea
by CapstanRoller 3y ago
Mass shootings aren't correlated with poverty. Guns are expensive.
Most mass shooters are disaffected folks in the "middle class" who have money to acquire weapons (or access to weapons via relatives) and time to spend immersing themselves in online right-wing cesspits.
Actual poor people are too busy trying to grind and survive.
- dffdsa432 3y agoThe most violent cities in America are all blue cities. https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-city-rankings/most-violent-cities-in-america https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-city-rankings/most-viol...
- theironhammer 3y agoAnd most of that is done by drug dealers fighting over turf. The shootings are highly concentrated in certain geographic areas.
- m0ped 3y agoMost cities are blue cities
- mikeryan 3y agoShit. Your own source disproves that if you use the most recent data https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-city-rankings/most-dangerous-cities-in-the-us https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-city-rankings/most-dang... Take off the minimum population requirement of 100k residents and the most dangerous metro areas are all small, rural conservative towns. https://www.statista.com/statistics/433603/us-metropolitan-areas-with-the-highest-violent-crime-rate/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/433603/us-metropolitan-a...
- alephnerd 3y agoMost of those cities on the less than 100k list have Dems in government as well, but imo this isn't a Dem-GOP issue and more of a "urban" versus "rural" issue - specifically these are all cities that have been left behind due to an oversized population of minorities (eg. Anchorage+Fairbanks for Native Americans, Memphis+Pine Bluffs+Monroe+Alexandria+Little Rock for African Americans, ABQ+Lubbock for Latino Americans) and severely deindustrialized (eg. Memphis, ABQ, Lubbock, Little Rock, Danville) due to bipartisan support of globalization in the 1990s and the collapse of the energy sector in the 1990s-2000s
- CapstanRoller 3y ago>muh red cities >muh blue cities >deflecting from the larger point and arguing about team colors It's all so tiresome.
- Incipient 3y agoIt's not only tiresome, it's unproductive. Why it's the case is probably for a whole host of reasons - generally poor education, media, cultural.
- red-iron-pine 3y agoVirtually all large cities in the US are blue, even in otherwise rabidly red states.
- bombcar 3y agoMass shootings are technically any that have a victim count over a certain number and the vast majority of those are committed by criminals with cheap weapons. Guns are not expensive, they're way cheaper than a car. The Hipoint C9 retails new for $199. If you can afford a mobile phone (read: almost everyone in the USA) you can afford multiple guns.
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- shjake 3y agoIt might be the outcome of racist policies or general racist attitudes but they are statistically correct. There is a high correlation between between ethnic or racial makeup of a certain area and crime and gun violence. I’m not sure simply handwaving this by calling everyone who points that out a ‘racist’ is the most productive attitude… Generally the same applies to poverty though which is probably a more direct indicator than race.
- slap 3y ago>>Generally the same applies to poverty though which is probably a more direct indicator than race. Not the case in the US, poverty is a bad indicator, race is a good one. Poorest white crime rates are lower than the richest blacks.
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