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Are you sure it's a gun problem? 2021 - Ethnic minorities represent over 50% of Birmingham’s population - [0] 2022 - Birmingham overtakes London as 'gun capit

• Hikikomori 8mo ago
  Are you suggesting its a skin color problem? Going from 0.05 to 0.06 is also a "big surge". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_homicide_rates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-r...
  • mothballed 8mo ago
    In the US one of the best demographic predictor of homicide rates is skin color. For instance, super white places like New Hampshire with the ~loosest gun laws in the country have extremely low murder rates. If you take a look at say a heat map of the US where homicide is[1], it tracks extremely closely to where the black population is (New Mexico an outlier despite having stronger gun laws than most the surrounding states besides Colorado).[2] [1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Homicide_rates_per_100%2C000_by_state._FBI._US_map.svg/1280px-Homicide_rates_per_100%2C000_by_state._FBI._US_map.svg.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Ho... [2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/African_Americans_by_state.svg/960px-African_Americans_by_state.svg.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Af...
    • 15155 8mo ago
      What's also fascinating is that this metric is consistent even when controlling for socioeconomic status - ruling out "unfair circumstances! less opportunities!" arguments.
  • delaminator 8mo ago
    I'm not suggesting it, I'm asserting it.