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Originally Posted by graciegirl
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It takes a year or more for the FBI statistics on shooting nationwide and by state to come out, but before that, some cities or states release their own statistics. I believe I’ve read in the NYTimes that shootings have been up a lot in poorer areas of cities. I think Covid drove many young people stir crazy, and staying home in a cramped apartment for a year has probably destroyed a lot of marriages, and losing jobs and not being able to pay the rent has caused immense stress. Thus, more shootings and more deaths.
Yes, the statistics for firearms deaths are accurate. Only half as many Hispanics die from being shot by firearms as do Euro-Americans, and twice as many African-Americans. Noticing that isn’t racist. It’s just statistics. We should add that among African-Americans, the vast majority of those shot and killed are young males from impoverished neighborhoods, and the shooters are nearly always young African-American males from impoverished neighborhoods. The shootings are generally gang or drug related. The Brady report quoted above says, “Gun homicide (mass shootings, so-called “everyday” violence, and police-involved shootings) is a universal American threat. But Black Americans are ten times more likely than White Americans to die from it. And Black youth fare even worse. Black children and teens are fourteen times more likely to die from gun homicide than their White counterparts.” The FBI reports show that in the vast majority of cases, whites shoot whites, blacks shoot blacks, and Hispanics shoot Hispanics, and in all ethnicities, the shooters are usually poor, young, and male, and drugs and alcohol and gangs are generally involved.
I would conclude from the above that you and I live in one of the safest places in America. Violence here seems to be nearly always between men and women or grown children living together, following arguments and drinking, and the physical manifestation of that is likely a push or a slap. The spiritual and emotional manifestations are much worse than the physical, alas. I’d say spend that extra money doing something fun with your husband instead of buying a gun you will never need to use.