Dean Weingarten, Gun Watch, January 3, 2012
When the subject is gun control, those who demand more for the United
States always point to Europe. Europe, they say, has more gun control
than the United States, and lower murder rates. Europe, of course, is a
diverse place. Some places have lots of guns and low murder rates. Some
places have few guns and higher murder rates. The reason that many
developed European countries have murder
rates much lower than the United States is not guns or gun control.
It is demographics.
In 2006 the Department
of Justice issued a report on violent felons in large urban
counties. It covered the period from 1990 to 2002, and included the 75
most populous counties in the United States. The study accounted for
over half of all the murders in the United States in the covered period.
Revealed in the study was a simple breakdown of the demographics of
the murderers that is not commonly available. Murderers were divided
into three groups. Blacks were the most numerous at 46%. Hispanics were
next at 27 percent. Non-Hispanic whites were last at 23 percent.
While the study does not account for all murders in the period
studied, it accounts for more than half and almost certainly slightly
understates the percentages of Black murderers, because the latest FBI
statistics (for 2010) show that when all the murders in the U.S are
taken into account, the percentage of Black murderers is over 53
percent.
No one would dispute that there are several distinct cultures among
the American black population. No one would dispute that none of these
cultures exist in Europe in any statistically significant numbers. Some
of the Black American subcultures probably have very low murder rates.
We cannot tell because we do not have the data to distinguish between
them.
Similarly, there are a number of distinct Hispanic cultures in the
United States. These are all derived from cultures in Mexico, Central
and South America, and the Caribbean. They are not Spanish or
Portuguese. No one would argue that any statistical number of these
populations exist in Europe. No doubt, some of these cultures also have
very low murder rates, but without data, we cannot separate them out.
Where does that lead us? If we take the 23 percent figure for
non-Hispanic whites to be representative for the entire population
(remember, it is likely a good bit lower), then the number of murders
committed by non-Hispanic and non-black people in the United States for
2010 would be 2989.
The population of non-Hispanic whites for 2010 was 196.8 million.
Applying the 2989 murders to this population gives a murder rate of 1.52
per 100,000 population. We cannot get a more precise figure unless we
have more demographic data than that given. Asian-Americans, for
example, have historically had very low murder rates, but we do not have
the data. The 1.52 per 100,000 murder rate is right in the middle of the
murder rate of developed European countries. Add the Black and Hispanic
numbers back into the mix and apply to the entire United States
population, and the murder rate goes up to 4.2 per 100,000. Guns or gun
control simply do not correlate to higher murder rates, particularly
when you consider that non-Hispanic Whites own guns at much higher rates
than do Blacks or Hispanics in the United States.
There are huge numbers of German-Americans, English-Americans,
Greek-Americans, Italian-Americans, Scandinavian and Swiss-Americans in
the United States. There are no statistically significant numbers of
African-American or Hispanic-Americans in Europe.
As a check, you might consider a non-European example. Japan has
extreme gun control and extremely low murder rates. The FBI used to
track murders by Japanese-Americans before 1980, when access to firearms
was relatively easy.
The murder rate of Japanese Americans was less than half that of
Japanese in Japan.
Murder rates are driven by cultural background, not by the instrument
used.
European murder and gun ownership rates: Link
Department of Justice Study with demographic data: Link
FBI homicide statistics, 2010: Link
Japanese and Japanese American murder rates: Link
Original Article
The Root Cause Of America's Gun Problem Is Blacks [ 9
June 2022 ]
QUOTE
[Blake
] Masters is woke on Uncle Ted, he’s married to
a white women with sons despite some possibly questionable mannerisms, and
now he’s dropping the red pills we all wanted to hear: the truth about the
root of “America’s gun violence problem.”
NBC News:
Blake Masters, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in
Arizona who was recently endorsed by former President Donald Trump, said
on a podcast this year that “Black people, frankly” are to blame for
America’s gun violence problem.
“We
do have a gun violence problem in this country, and it’s gang violence,”
Masters
said on “The Jeff Oravits Show” in April. “It’s gangs. It’s
people in Chicago, St. Louis shooting each other. Very often, you know,
Black people, frankly. And the Democrats don’t want to do anything about
that.”
Masters also claimed Democrats “are weak on crime” and “don’t like the
Second Amendment” because “it frankly blocks a lot of their plans for
us.”
There are
three separate issues here:
- Blacks are the ones doing the shooting
- Democrats don’t want to talk about the blacks
- The blacks fit into a plan that the Democrats have for America
The last
one is really the most important.........
During the same podcast, when asked what he thought about President Joe
Biden’s Supreme Court nominee
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman confirmed to
the court, Masters said she was “a horrible pick” and that she
was an “affirmative action candidate.”..............
But note
– please, I implore you to note – they did not claim that Master Masters’
statements about the blacks being at the root of the gun violence epidemic
was a “baseless claim.” No one wants to touch that one. And the media didn’t
even bring it up until now – months after the podcast was recorded..........
Democrats just simply do not want to talk about this issue at all, as
their entire gun control narrative reverses – if blacks are doing
virtually all of the violent crime, then white people need to keep their
guns to protect themselves from these blacks, and Democrats – who are
the ones who have made themselves the protectors of the blacks – need to
figure out a way to get their little pets to stop killing everyone.......
The
burden to explain it falls on the people who are talking about it
nonstop.
UNQUOTE
Blake Masters
is telling it like it is; he can tell the truth because he is not
beholden to the Puppet Masters, the
Zionist crazies pulling the strings, telling
Joe Biden what his opinions are today.
Mr Masters
is annoying Hard Left subversives big
time. Is he wrong? NO! See e.g.
Murder In Chicago
in 2021
