It's the culture, not the ethnicities, not poverty, and not gun ownership (my guns have never killed anyone, despite being mostly unsupervised).
Many young black men enjoy a culture of violence and most of their victims are other young black men engaging in the same cultural practices. Play stupid games and you will win stupid prizes.
Their is a correlation between bad cultural practices and the bad financial practices that lead to poverty. That is very different than poverty causing crime. Its bad parenting and bad culture.
Fatherlessness is the number one factor in criminality and the number one factor in poverty. Follow the statistics for any group whose culture places little value on fatherhood and you find major problems. Double down for teen mothers who let their kids be raised by grandparents.
The "13% of the popularion" statistic is a bit misleading, as the blacks that commit the majority of the killings are overwhelmingly male (half of the 13%, or 6.5%) and young (maybe 2.5% or so of the US population). That is much more sobering.
I find it interesting that one political party manages all the most violent cities and then blames the other party. The government sure as hell only makes things worse with their communist policies and racial "education" blame game.
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