'These numbers (like those discussed by Reihan Salam recently) go a long way toward explaining why we talk about black-on-black crime a lot more than we talk about white-on-white crime, even though most crime for both groups is intraracial. '
Huh? Say what? It is what it isn't?
Dr. Walter Williams piece here is very well written and on point IMHO: http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2014/08/27/blacks-must-confront-reality-n1882887
T. Paine is 100% correct, and that was my first thought when I read the article. But this is how the left twists things -- they weave a little lie (even though most crime for both groups is interracial) into a bigger truth (violent crime is disproportionately perpetrated by blacks) to make it seem like we're all equally at fault. And the lie gets lost in the greater truth, and is adopted as part of that greater truth.
This is exactly why I constantly remind my children: you cannot have an honest discussion with liars.
The article by Dr. Walter Williams is excellent, as is this video by Bill Whittle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGTUcS-yQtQ
That reports merely tells me what I already knew: that 13% of the population commits about 50% of the murders using guns and are victims at roughly the same percentage.
Initially, one might say "Geez! If we just restrict blacks from buying guns at all, we could cut the crime rate"! But then I realize that the guns these guys are using to kill each other are not bought from gun shops, like law abiding folks do. They're either stolen from their rightful owners in a burglary or they are bought out of a car trunk from people who steal them. Though I wonder why Chicago was not included in this study, it's much harder there for a law abiding citizen to get their hands on a firearm than it is for a black thug.
Unsurprising, given what is happening in so many of these shootings: turf battles and drug deals gone bad. If the ruling class wanted to reduce murders they would get rid of the war on drugs. But that is contrary to their interests, and they don't give a damn how many people get shot, as long as it is not them.
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'These numbers (like those discussed by Reihan Salam recently) go a long way toward explaining why we talk about black-on-black crime a lot more than we talk about white-on-white crime, even though most crime for both groups is intraracial. '
Huh? Say what? It is what it isn't?
Dr. Walter Williams piece here is very well written and on point IMHO: http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2014/08/27/blacks-must-confront-reality-n1882887
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T. Paine is 100% correct, and that was my first thought when I read the article. But this is how the left twists things -- they weave a little lie (even though most crime for both groups is interracial) into a bigger truth (violent crime is disproportionately perpetrated by blacks) to make it seem like we're all equally at fault. And the lie gets lost in the greater truth, and is adopted as part of that greater truth.
This is exactly why I constantly remind my children: you cannot have an honest discussion with liars.
The article by Dr. Walter Williams is excellent, as is this video by Bill Whittle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGTUcS-yQtQ
That reports merely tells me what I already knew: that 13% of the population commits about 50% of the murders using guns and are victims at roughly the same percentage.
In other news, the sky is blue and water is wet.
Gomer says,
"Surprise, surprise, surprise!"
Initially, one might say "Geez! If we just restrict blacks from buying guns at all, we could cut the crime rate"! But then I realize that the guns these guys are using to kill each other are not bought from gun shops, like law abiding folks do. They're either stolen from their rightful owners in a burglary or they are bought out of a car trunk from people who steal them. Though I wonder why Chicago was not included in this study, it's much harder there for a law abiding citizen to get their hands on a firearm than it is for a black thug.
Captain Obvious took the words right out of my mouth.
SAVAGE: FEDS ARMING FOR 'WAR ON WHITE PEOPLE'
http://www.wnd.com/2014/08/savage-feds-arming-for-war-on-white-people/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2l5zobmby8
Unsurprising, given what is happening in so many of these shootings: turf battles and drug deals gone bad. If the ruling class wanted to reduce murders they would get rid of the war on drugs. But that is contrary to their interests, and they don't give a damn how many people get shot, as long as it is not them.
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