HooDat wrote: ↑Fri Jan 27, 2023 10:46 am
jhu72 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 27, 2023 10:20 am
HooDat wrote: ↑Fri Jan 27, 2023 10:08 am
Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Fri Jan 27, 2023 7:53 am
Not an anomaly: 2020's red states have higher murder rates
Now do "Blue" cities.....
Murder rates ain't about politics, and they aren't about 2A rights. They are about poverty, broken cultures and a lack of hope.
.... do cities period.
exactly. I'll take it one step further - do POOR Communities.
The wealthy urban neighborhoods and suburbs aren't where the shootings are taking place.
It is in the poor (broken) communities. In the country they tend to be "red" in the city they tend to be "blue".
But it all goes back to despair and cultures where shooting someone is viewed as having as much potential upside as down...
That is where we are failing. Not justifying their actions, just noting the underlying cause(s).
That, and a country awash in guns, where the reality is that there's an expectation of using a gun to address any conflict or despair.
Notwithstanding, the blue city, red rural,
poverty, it's also a reality that the regions where guns are most easily obtained "legally", the murder rate is highest. Obtaining guns illegally is also easier in those regions, or where those regions are reachable easily.
So, given the politics, it's no surprise that the regions with the highest deaths by gun are 'red'.
Also no surprise that criminals will obtain the guns wherever easier and transport them to where there's demand.
Other developed countries have poverty like ours, whether rural or urban, and indeed crime and murder rates are higher there than in their more affluent areas...but way lower gun violence. Because guns are not easily obtained much less carried, legally, country-wide.
It's not going to be easy to reverse our gun crazy culture, to dramatically reduce the number of guns, but there really are some common sense things we can do to move the needle....but it requires national solutions not state by state, as there's too much interstate bleed over...by criminals.