Gun Control (the false flag) vs Political Correctness (the REAL issue here) when it comes to the real numbers of "gun deaths"
let's discuss FACTS.
Here's the deal, facts are not racist. They're not classist, they're not homophobic, they're not anti-environment, anti-immigrant, anti-handicapped or anything else - they're just facts.
The inability to look at FACTS because of the fear of saying something politically incorrect is the reason nothing ever gets done.
Gun control - what politicians do instead of something.
Yes, deaths - all deaths - matter, not just "gun deaths." And that if you want to affect THAT problem, then you have to look at who is dying and where they are dying and why they are dying. Making rural and suburban gun owners license and register their firearms does not address the deaths of inner-city youths, regardless of the color of their skin. It so happens that inner city youths are overwhelmingly black, but that is not the fault of guns. But addressing the epidemic problem of inner-city youth homicide can't be done because to do so would be considered "racist" by our political victim class.
The FACT of the matter is that homicide in the U.S. is heavily concentrated in a very small, easily identifiable demographic to the point that it severely skews the overall numbers. If it were possible to reduce homicide within that group to the same level as the average of the rest of the population, then the overall homicide rate in the U.S. - despite all of our guns - would be more in line with the rest of the "developed world."
Look up the Centers for Disease Control's WISQARS tool. Here are some relevant FACTS.
Leading causes of death, all races, both sexes from 1999 - 2010, from 15 years of age to age 34
1. Unintentional injury
2. Homicide (15-24 years of age) and Suicide (25-34)
3. Suicide (15-24) and Homicide (25-34)
4. Malignant neoplasms (cancer)
5. Heart disease
6. Congenital anomalies (15-24), HIV (25-34)
7. Flu and pneumonia (15-24), Diabetes (25-34)
Now, if we look specifically at black men in those groups:
1. Homicide - both age subgroups, by almost TWICE the runner-up, "unintentional injury." Over that twelve year period, the CDC recorded 57,349 young black men between the ages of 15 and 34 died as a result of homicide - 46.2% of the total victims of homicide in those age groups (though they are only 7.2% of that population), 58% of the male victims of homicide in those age groups (14.2% of that population - I guess I'm anti-male, too), and 27% of all homicide victims, though they make up only 2% of the total population.
But I'm racist for pointing this out and saying "LOOK! THIS IS A BAD THING WE DON'T TALK ABOUT!"
Yet you want us to believe this is a "GUN problem"?
The homicide rate in 2010 according to the CDC was 5.27/100,000, all races, both sexes, all ages. For young black men ages 15-34 it was 73.21/100,000 almost fourteen times higher.
When performing triage on a patient, don't you want to stop the arterial bleeding first? Or am I a racist for saying that?
If we could somehow reduce the homicide rate in this group to the 5.27/100,000 average of the nation, that alone would have saved the lives of 4,343 people in 2010. Is that not a goal to strive for? Then why are we talking about "assault weapon" bans and magazine size restrictions?
Oh, and by reducing the homicide rate in that demographic to 5.27/100,000, the total U.S. homicide rate would then decline to 3.86/100,000. I leave extrapolation of THAT data to you.
Yeah, we kill each other a lot. I get it. But when arterial blood is spurting from a limb, putting a Band-Aid™ on the victim's finger doesn't help. (OMG! A brand name! I must be in the pay of evil CORPORATIONS!!.....you....you must work for the COKE BROTHERS...oh damn...another CORPORATION....I meant the KOCH BROTHERS...you....you...H8R!!!!)
