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Originally Posted by graciegirl
I know that. I knew that. I was attempting to define the problem and gather facts.[/QhUOTE]
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Any death by gun (any death actually) is a tragedy for all involved. Does not matter the race, ethnicity or anything else. Placing labels to discuss is fruitless.
Understanding the “why” requires much much more than the color of ones skin, unless you actually believe those with a dark skin are actually born to kill people or violate the law.
As others have stated, and is my opinion, so much killing is a result of economics. Yes, there are some bad people by nature, economic frustration and desperation drive people to extremes. Add an ingredient of being looked at, as a human being, as being different or inferior (no matter the color of skin) and that drives many the wrong way.
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studies/statistics say otherwise. if poverty were the primary factor in violent crime, then why does places in rural West Virginia or Florida have so much less violent crime. rates? If poverty were the cause of crime, the per capita crime rate among poor people would exhibit a strong correlation with socio-economic status, but no correlation at all with race among people who are equally rich or equally poor. to the contrary, statistics show that there’s an even stronger correlation between crime and race than there is between crime and social class. The best predictor of the crime rates in an area is almost always its racial demographics. sorry if you can't deal with facts, but this IS a fact.
Until this country can be honest about the facts - that one group in society is very disproportionately committing crime, and its largely not discussed because it's an uncomfortable truth, we will never have honesty. People see whats going on, no matter how many people are "taking knees", babbling about "social justice" (whatever on earth THAT means, anyway).
if the majority group in this country was committing 4x the amount of crime as the ones not in the majority, I'm sure that's all we'd hear about. but it's the opposite.
liberals are simply dishonest because the truth does not fit their narrative