2aguy
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Yes.....interesting things about guns...it isn't gun ownership that causes gun murder...since the population doing most of the gun murder owns the fewest guns........
Bet you didn't know that.......
What the Amazing Racial Disparities in Gun Violence Can Teach us About Gun Control
The next interesting statistic is that this high homicide rate comes from a population with a much lower rate of gun ownership. Roughly “41 percent of white households own guns, compared with to just 19 percent of black households.”
In other words, when it comes to guns — white and black Americans live different lives.
White Americans don’t experience much criminal gun violence but have much greater experience with guns.
Widespread gun ownership doesn’t lead to criminal carnage, so fear-based gun control arguments simply don’t ring true.
The experience of black communities, by contrast, shows that unless there are effective legal, political, and cultural efforts to thwart the criminal class, even much lower rates of gun ownership won’t stop widespread violence. It doesn’t take many armed and angry people to exact a terrible toll.
Black America has a rate of gun ownership that gun controllers would long to achieve for the rest of the country, yet it still suffers from a horrifying level of homicide.
Suicides represent not just the vast majority of white gun deaths, but the vast majority of gun deaths overall.
It’s unclear, however, whether high rates of gun ownership are necessarily material to the suicide rate.
After all, as my colleague Mark Wright pointed out, Japan and South Korea have extremely high suicide rates despite far lower rates of gun ownership. Suicide is a cultural problem. It is not a gun problem.
Bet you didn't know that.......
What the Amazing Racial Disparities in Gun Violence Can Teach us About Gun Control
The next interesting statistic is that this high homicide rate comes from a population with a much lower rate of gun ownership. Roughly “41 percent of white households own guns, compared with to just 19 percent of black households.”
In other words, when it comes to guns — white and black Americans live different lives.
White Americans don’t experience much criminal gun violence but have much greater experience with guns.
Widespread gun ownership doesn’t lead to criminal carnage, so fear-based gun control arguments simply don’t ring true.
The experience of black communities, by contrast, shows that unless there are effective legal, political, and cultural efforts to thwart the criminal class, even much lower rates of gun ownership won’t stop widespread violence. It doesn’t take many armed and angry people to exact a terrible toll.
Black America has a rate of gun ownership that gun controllers would long to achieve for the rest of the country, yet it still suffers from a horrifying level of homicide.
Suicides represent not just the vast majority of white gun deaths, but the vast majority of gun deaths overall.
It’s unclear, however, whether high rates of gun ownership are necessarily material to the suicide rate.
After all, as my colleague Mark Wright pointed out, Japan and South Korea have extremely high suicide rates despite far lower rates of gun ownership. Suicide is a cultural problem. It is not a gun problem.
