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Primarily due to demographics and not gun laws. Look at the rates of homicides by firearm for White Americans and they’re within the same order of magnitude as
by atdrummond 3y ago
Primarily due to demographics and not gun laws.
Look at the rates of homicides by firearm for White Americans and they’re within the same order of magnitude as European nations.
This is a conversation that is verboten in the US because people assume that it means you believe that crime must be intrinsic to race, even though this statistic is actually fully compatible with the liberal orthodoxy regarding the disparate impact of government policy on American Black people.
- lostlogin 3y agoIs the divide black/white or rich/poor? Inequality seems a driver for badness.
- atdrummond 3y agoThere is always a gap between rich and poor on violent crime like homicides but the cross racial gap persists (in the US) at any point along the continuum of SES.