Numbers and how they are attributed…
One statistic that the gun-control crowd loves to toss around is that gun violence is highest in deep red states and lowest in deep blue states. And statistically speaking, they’re correct. Per the CDC, the states with the highest per capita rates for gun murders are Mississippi, Louisiana, New Mexico, Alabama, and Missouri. The states with the lowest rates are Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Hawaii, New Jersey, and New York.
So what’s going on here? Is this simply a systemic problem of violent, gun totin’, insurrectionist inbreds barreling through the backwoods in their pickup trucks, yeehawing and looking for my-NAHR-uh-ties to shoot? Could the coastal elites, for once, have the facts on their side?
The CDC chart is HERE, the full article is HERE.
At the ten thousand foot view, it is correct, but when you drill down into specific demographics by location, the attribution falls apart. Take those locations out of the equation, and the state numbers drop significantly.
In a slight digression, Ammo.com has done a deep dive into murders by weapon type, HERE. In Mississippi, 91% of homicides are by guns. Look at Lenoir Co, and I’ll be it is right at 100%.
Just like Chicago numbers are ignored by the MSM, and Baltimore, and certain sections of DC…
Yes, there are huge problems, no question. WAY too many people die by homicide, but guns are just ONE of the ways murder is committed. Allowing murders to walk free, illegals who ran here to get away from a murder charge in their home countries, etc. all play into this, as does blaming teh ‘gun’ and never the perpetrator for the action. The media also selectively ‘covers’ murders as we all know. If they ‘fit’ the agenda, they get coverage, if they don’t they are buried quickly, with justice and actual reporting taking a back seat to agenda.
Another thing I believe plays into it is the lack of family structure, religion, and taking responsibility for one’s actions. All of those things are the anathema of the left/dems and their base proves that almost daily. Also, the lack of justice/punishment means there is no deterrent to repeating those actions.
The education system is not blameless either, with the ‘limitations’ placed on discipline of students, lack of school resource officers, and the antipathy of many educators when it comes to stopping students from acting out.
For example my granddaughter age 7, was harassed and choked by another female in the class more than once. This girl also threatened other students, including with teacher’s scissors. NOTHING was done by the teacher or the school administration until my daughter filed a police report on it, and at that point, my granddaughter was (according to the school principal) determined to be the instigator! Only after another child and her mother stepped forward, was anything done… Apparently, they simply moved the offender to another school.
Things need to change, but I believe the first thing that has to happen is perpetrators are made to take responsibility for their actions and have to be punished for those actions, regardless of ethnicity, country of origin, or religious preference. And these punishments have to act as a deterrent to them and their ilk ever doing those things again. The next thing is allowing/requiring parents to be actively involved in raising their children, preferably in a 2 parent household, hopefully with at least some religious context, and getting the school system out of raising the children. Their job is education!
It will take a least a generation for even those simple steps…what comes next???
From another venue, after a shooting:
“I wonder what race the shooter will be found to be. ‘White’ or ‘gunman’?”
Yer not gonna fix it, because to fix it would require facing truths most people cannot stomach.
Blacks are dumb and violent. Native Americans (including most Latinos) are too, but slightly less so. This has always been true. This will always be true, because of both nature and nurture. “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.”
Leftist Democrat policies only make things worse.
It took 800 years of hangings to civilize the English people.
800 years of capital punishment in England but the last hundred years or so they started Transporting criminals to the Colonies then Australia instead.
Orvan- Yep, always an ‘indicator’…
B- Sigh, probably
McC- Interesting point. 800 years? Wow…
Generally in cities of any significant size the “perpetrators” are a minority… specifically one minority. This group is given special dispensation by the liberal criminals in power and allowed to run amok. Anyone complaining will be excoriated and if necessary destroyed. Which is why the ENTIRE “education” system in America needs to be dismantled and for the most part left that way. I have no doubt your granddaughter’s bully was part of a protected selected minority .
Dan- True.
Talking about in school violence, my great grand daughter age 13 in a medium size Alaskan town was beat up and knocked down by another girl in the gym locker room! This happened with a bunch of other girls not only watching but filming it with their phones! The only reason the aggressor was given some justice is that some of the videos were down loaded to the web and provided evidence when her mom went to the school to complain!
Some years ago Bill Whittle observed that if 5 cities were removed from the murder stats America would drop from the top 3 “death countries” down to 140 or 143. Indeed, it was not all of the cities, but 8 or 10 ZIP Codes that held most of the murders.