Quote of the Day
When President Biden launched what he called the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, he adopted one of the key assertions of the gun control movement: our nation’s gun-related crime problem is an “epidemic” that must be solved by increased gun control. But if “gun violence” is an epidemic, then it is certainly not one felt by the whole population equally.
Of course, there is no doubt people of all races have been murdered with guns. Similarly, the scourge of mass shootings, while still a very statistically unlikely threat, has not discriminated in who it harms when such crimes do happen. There is also no doubt that far too many Americans succumb to suicide, a large proportion of which are completed with firearms.
But when it comes to what most people mean when they say “gun violence” – violent crimes committed by a person (or people) against another person (or people) using firearms – there is simply no way to beat around the bush: Black Americans are far and away the most affected, and it isn’t even close. Addressing the root causes of why is the riddle we must solve as a country. But to do so, we first have to identify the problem with as much specificity as possible, and reject those who try to shut down this debate.
Kostas Moros @MorosKostas
December 8, 2024
The racial disparity in gun-related homicide: a problem that must be discussed so it can be solved.
It is a long article. But if you don’t want to read the whole thing, at least read the Solutions section.
The article only barely mentions, let alone covers in the data charts, the big issue: not just that young black males are far more likely to be homicide victims, but also that they are far more likely to be the murderers.
Focusing on who the victims are is good in one sense, but not if you’re looking for solutions. For those, the focus must be on the perpetrators. Well, and perhaps on promoting self-defense and making it legal nationwide.
Immediate impression (having not clicked through yet): They acknowledge that “Black Americans are far and away the most affected” by “gun violence”, which is true and accurate. However, if they don’t also explicitly acknowledge that the vast majority of homicides among Black Americans are committed by other Black Americans, the report will be used to persecute White American gun owners for being violent racists, which is neither true nor accurate (but is part of The Narrative[TM]).
Having now read the article, I was pleasantly surprised that the author did, in fact, acknowledge that “intra-racial” homicides are by far the most common; most (89%, according to the article, citing the FBI) Black American homicides are committed by Black American perpetrators.
However, despite all other points being repeatedly addressed and circled back to, this one was only mentioned once, almost in passing, in paragraph #6. And never mentioned again. Pkoning above is correct: focusing on the victims is fine for sympathy and awareness, but for real solutions we have to focus at least as hard on the perpetrators, and this author doesn’t do a particularly good job of that.
The article also fails to mention culture as a contributing factor. If education and work ethic a looked down on as uncool or “Whiteness” no amount ot teachers and resources will make members of that culture learn. This is also the politically unpalatable reason why New York City’s elite high schools were heavily Asian and had few black students under the race,blind standardized tests instituted in the 70s. The culture that valued learning excelled, the culture that denigrated did not.
It’s worth noting that black culture is violent pretty much everywhere in the world when they are present. The black majority countries in Africa are violent. The black majority neighborhoods in non-black majority cities and countries are more violent than the surrounding areas. Black-run black-majority cities have higher violence rates than surrounding non-black cities and areas or comparable non-black cities farther away.
Is it culture, biology, evolutionary pressure / adaptation, or the magic of “racism.”
And once again, no such thing as “gun-violence”.
And violence is almost always committed by someone that just can’t think through to the consequences of their actions, IE. “Low impulse control”. With a gun, knife, fists, feet, or maybe whatever is handy.
No need to go all racial. As any crime one can do with gun, can be done with some other object, and is illegal. Can we just get back to “doing the crime means you do the time”, And leave the objects out of it?
Our national focus needs to move away from these antiqued communist ideas. We should move on toward teaching people what happens to those who have LIC. Make examples of them and move away from the industrial prison/legal system.
In simple terms, hang the idiots and have done with it. Or deport them too someplace else.
Public caneing for minor crime might help. As the guy that was interviewed after being caned in Singapore said, when asked if he would commit such a public offense again?
“I wouldn’t even entertain the thought of doing that again.”
The problem is obvious…for those willing to see. And it’s NOT “racism”. It’s “pattern recognition”. Blacks make up about 13% of the population yet commit some 50% of all murders. The solution is simple. Lock up blacks. You get an instant 50% reduction in the murder rate. And to coin a phrase the left loves….
“Do It For The Children”.