Gun Policy Research

[Dill]

(06-23-2017, 02:40 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Who is responsible for the other 52%? The other 93.7% of the population...
93.7% of the population = 52% of homicides
6.3% of the population = 48% of the homicides

 I thought we were laughing at people who provided anecdotal evidence in this thread? I never said all black men were gang members who carried guns, because obviously they are not. I just said if you're truly looking to curb gun violence in the country, you don't need to do any further studies. You just need to focus on that relatively small, disproportionately violent, section of the population.

Black people who don't own guns and don't murder are not "anecdotal." And you were addressing the whole 6.3% as "the problem." Not some fraction thereof.

When you write "93.7% of the population = 52% of homicides" you imply the rest of the homicides are evenly distributed among other demographic groups. Is that really the case? Why does curiosity immediately stop with "black males"?

A good social scientist would be trying to look at the data from different angles created by different social categories.
Can some other factor besides race produce a demographic category which corresponds more precisely to those who commit homicides?
E.g., how many gun homicides are carried out by gun owners as opposed to non owners?