Monday, September 7, 2015

The One Gun Violence Statistic that No One Wants to Talk About

 

Everyone involved in the great gun debate wants to reduce firearm-related violence. Of course, the two sides differ on solutions to the problem. To oversimplify for the sake of brevity, the National Rifle Association wants to put guns in the hands of more law-abiding citizens in the hope that an armed society creates a politer society, whereas Everytown for Gun Safety wants to restrict access to guns in the hope that it keeps them from falling into the wrong hands.

However, truth be told, neither solution really addresses the elephant in the room which is that gun-related violence is an epidemic in the African American community. To quote from a recent Pew Study:

More @ Guns America

3 comments:

  1. Since the gray line is a component of the black line, I'd like to see the same chart with those results filtered out. Now that would be enlightening....

    ReplyDelete
  2. I would like to see a chart showing gang infested city's to rural country towns where kids are brought up with hard work and to respect life and other people. All the studies in the world will never show a gun killing some one by itself Stop looking at guns and start fixing the fools behind the gun

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. That would be interesting and I don't believe I have ever seen one, but we pretty well know what it would show.

      Delete