Joat42 wrote:n7axw wrote:That article went on to add that the homicide rate was more closely tied to economics than race. A wealthy community will have a much lower homicide rate than an impoverished one. An impoverished white community in Appalacia, for example, would have similar homicide rates to a poor black community in someplace like Detroit. I suspect this is overly simplified with other things to be vectored in.
Which I remarked on quite a while ago. With a level playing field, race doesn't matter, but when racism and cultural tribalism is still rampant some groups of people will have a much harder time to improve their economic situation.
It's aptly illustrated by some people here who loudly proclaim that some cities are shitholes because of "race-violence" while not even realizing why that it is like that.
I neither know why or care why but the numbers show a very distinct slant toward some ethnic grouping committing murders. The final 2017 CDC mortality report breaks American causes of death down in just about any way they can be. The total from firearms was 38,396; 23,854 were suicides; 14,542 were homicides. The breakdown of homicides by age: <1 yrs=12, 1-4=44, 5-14=204, 15-24=4,391, 25-34=4,594, 35-44=2,561, 45-54=1,447, 55-64=824, 65-74=322, 75-84=109, 85>=34. Homicides broken down by ethnic groupings: Non-Hispanic Native American/Native Alaskan=124, Non-Hispanic Asian/Pacific Islander=197, Hispanic=2,268, Non-Hispanic White=3,549, Non-Hispanic Black=8,371. Non-firearms homicides tend to approximate these ratios.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr ... 09-508.pdfMake of it what you will.