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Old 06-22-2021, 07:14 AM
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Originally Posted by jdulej View Post
My guess is that if you created a chart showing shooting and/or deaths by income groups, you would see a correlation. Less income = more shootings/deaths. Looking at the numbers that way makes more sense (to me at least). There are fewer low income whites (as a % of whites) so you would expect their numbers to be lower
According to the US government, there are 6,534,462 blacks living below the poverty line in the US and 15,438,528 whites living below the poverty line. Based on your hypothesis whites should be twice as likely to commit a crime with a gun, or be shot than blacks.
But in reality, blacks are more likely to commit gun violence and twice as likely to die from gun violence than whites.