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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

• 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.