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If you look up the stats on gun violence by states do it yourself you will find red states at the top. And the deaths per 100K of the top ones are worse that all but a few US cities.
first of all, my quick search shows conflating suicide by gun with "gun violence"
what percentage of Mississippi's issue is in Jackson? Which is a dem controlled city.
Louisiana has 3 cities that have ungodly crime. NOLA, Baton Rouge and Shreveport. they account for a huge portion of Louisiana's population and their crime drives up the whole state.
As for Chicago, drive those numbers down to zip codes. Im betting you have vast swaths of middle class areas called "Chicago" with virtually no crime and a handful that have crime rates as high or higher than pretty much any murderous "red state"
Wyoming? Alaska? Even Idaho has about the same gun deaths per capita as Chicago. Of course wealthier areas have much less crime. But you just move the target when the facts don't back up your point.
Blue cities and the way they govern have an end result of more crime and deaths by firearms. No doubt. But the inconvenient truth is red stats without big inner cites also have lots of gun deaths.
I just want to comment on the notion that throwing money at the problem will fix it. I'd like to address the issue from a psychological point of view. And I wish more lawmakers could do the same.
Part of the United States has a culture which believes that people you have problems with deserve to be shot. It's an antisocial and civilly destructive principle that they live and die by. Hard for the rest of us to understand but true.
No amount of improvement in their food, clothing or living environment is going to change their belief system. That is a mental health problem with legal ramifications. It also contributes to impoverishing families.
Poor people who grew up without the notion that shooting people is a problem-solving lifestyle rarely start shooting people if they become more poor. And if they do it's usually their families and themselves they annihilate.
It's a mentality.
This is an issue that other cultures are not going to be able to fix. Not because they don't have the tools to help but because the gangster culture believes that they can't help. Law-abiding helpers of other cultures don't have the "street cred" that gives gangs faith in them.
It is literally impossible to go into someone's neighborhood and announce you are there to help straighten them all up. LOL. Even when they are demanding it.
Something that I see happening and am encouraged by is watching young people of color who have escaped the self-defeating lifestyle, gotten an education and gone back to help others see the way to change. They have a credibility which the mainstream culture lacks in order to help.
Wyoming? Alaska? Even Idaho has about the same gun deaths per capita as Chicago. Of course wealthier areas have much less crime. But you just move the target when the facts don't back up your point.
Blue cities and the way they govern have an end result of more crime and deaths by firearms. No doubt. But the inconvenient truth is red stats without big inner cites also have lots of gun deaths.
First, I really havent expressed my real point. But to make it, my point is that first and foremost economic access /hope/hopelessness are the real drivers of crime.
No matter where you look, whether you are looking at "red states" or "blue cities" you find two things in common. First, little economic access that leads to hopelessness and second, policies advocated by the political left that exacerbates the issue.
By the way, when I agree on the surface with some notion (not necessarily with that presented in the OP, it doesnt mean I see that as some indication that blacks are violent. It really points to greater hopelessness and less economic access. on the last point, thats a function of systemic racism. litterallly draw a line in any city in America, the jobs are on one side of that line and the majority of underserved blacks are on the other.
As for hopelessness, democrat policy and rhetoric drive that message daily into the heads of every person of color in the country. "You have no hope. You have no chance. The system is rigged against and all white people hate you. " Its a false premise and it is damaging to the country.
If we drill down on the numbers from places like Alaska and Wyoming will follow the pattern even if on the surface it doesnt look like it and even if it isnt black people involved.
what percentage of Mississippi's issue is in Jackson? Which is a dem controlled city.
Louisiana has 3 cities that have ungodly crime. NOLA, Baton Rouge and Shreveport. they account for a huge portion of Louisiana's population and their crime drives up the whole state.
As for Chicago, drive those numbers down to zip codes. Im betting you have vast swaths of middle class areas called "Chicago" with virtually no crime and a handful that have crime rates as high or higher than pretty much any murderous "red state"
Exactly, that is why it can't be broken down by state.
Partisan politics. Both sides look for the others weaknesses.
The dems are obsessed with January 6th. Trump voters are in denial about it.
Hardcore progressives and elected DC Dems are obsessed. Trump sycophants are in denial.
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