Gun Policy Research

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(06-22-2017, 04:33 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: Okay, how do we eradicate gangs? And then, how do we curb the other 90% of firearm homicides in the country?

For suicides, I don't typically count them as gun violence, but they are gun deaths, and they are a problem.

Lol, as if 90% aren't gang-related. In 2015 there were ~13,000 gun homicides, in Chicago alone that year there were 424 gun homicides (it was much worse in 2016). That alone is 3.26% of the entire countries gun homicides from just ONE city. If you think the entire rest of the country will only combine for ~6.74%, then I would like some of what you're having.

Federally legalize marijuana and any similar non-lethal drug. Making it illegal is doing more harm than good, while funding criminal organizations. Just think about those 8 people who were murdered in Ohio by the cartels because they were growing marijuana in the woods behind their homes. Silly for things like that to happen over pot. Save government resources to track down and destroy meth labs, and heroin smugglers.

Make larger efforts to lock down the Mexican border. I'm not saying a wall, but there is massive amounts of lethal drugs flowing into the country from the border. Also create much harsher penalties for drug smugglers crossing the border to dissuade people who might otherwise be willing to risk it.

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Then at the risk of being called racist for pointing out facts, you need to do something about the current black culture, which idolizes drugs and murder.

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/tables/10shrtbl03.xls

This is from 2010, but it shows that out of the 10,870 gun murder victims whose attacker's race was known, 5,770 of them were African American. That is at least 53.1% of them committed by 12.6% of the population, which gets worse when you realize that about 90% of the murderers were male. So if those numbers hold up from previously, about 48% of the gun murders in the country are committed by black males, who are (admittedly just halving the black population in half on this one, assuming 50/50 split) 6.3% of the population. Or over represented by about 7.6 times.


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Most things that put out numbers for gun violence generally include suicides if they're trying to take an anti-gun stance. As if Japan includes suicides in "rope violence" or something. I personally have the view that a person should have the right to end their own life if they want to. Permitting they do so in a way that doesn't directly harm another. (Like say, turning into oncoming traffic, or suicide by cop.) Granted, I also think that a person should be one-and-done on emergency services for ODing. Saving people who don't want to be saved and will just do it again always seemed rather silly to me. Save your resources for people who actually want/need them.