What does this statistic say needs to be changed in Gun Control?
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17 Apr 2013 11:58PM
well where i come from they're are alot of black people on welfare and don't have jobs. No job no stress and too much time also alot of white people i know have very stressful jobs. im not saying this about every black person nor am i saying about every white person. but i do believe it comes down to jobs education and also the area you live in. Being in youngstown there are a lot of uneducated blacks. not saying they're all like that, its just the majority of them act gansta.
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18 Apr 2013 12:12AM
It's too narrow a sample to derive anything about anything from. It's not got enough dimensions of data. Not enough context.
Ad socio-economic class to it, for example, and suddenly you'll see closer figures between blacks and whites. You'll see higher class blacks drop the guns and lower class whites picking them up. Because gun violence is a poverty problem, not a gun problem or race problem. It's about people having lives so shitty they need to lie, cheat, and steal from people they assault, rob, and murder to survive. Fix that, and you fix a lot of the gun problems.
Go look up stats on gun ownership in America. There're over 300 million.
You know how many were used in a crime in 2011? Less than 0.03%!
You know how many were used in a MURDER in 2011? Less than 0.0001%!
Clearly the issue isn't guns.
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18 Apr 2013 5:16AM
I see that this "statistic" is in no way sourced and lacks location data, or time indexing. Where the data comes from, matters. Also, what you've posted is not a "statistic" it's a chart.
I live in an extremely low-crime area. I mean, to the point of about one murder per year in a 50 mile radius. Still, I've known several people who keep an arsenal for "home defense". That tells me that there's something more to the American gun phenomenon than sensible self defense. I'm generally on the side of limited gun regulation, but a lot of gun owners make it tough for me to hold the opinion. These are people who can't seem to stop from talking about shooting people who don't agree with them on religion or lifestyle, and who seem to think that the firearm is essentially the only solution to a problem.
If a person can't even be responsible with their mouth, I question their responsibility to possess a deadly weapon.
