Mostly white christian males
Comment on Why is gun violence lower in Switzerland than in the US?
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Who’s doing the shootings in the US?
Jhex@lemmy.world 1 week ago
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Wrong answer but you are playing to the crowd and I appreciate that
Jiggle_Physics@quokk.au 1 week ago
Most of the indiscriminate terrorist style mass shootings are white christian males, age 18-35, the majority of the criminal activity related (eg drug sales) is from black men age 18-30. Most of the gun deaths are from suicide, which is largely white men, but still high for black men.
Most preventable child deaths in the US are from guns, however the vast majority from accidental gun discharge, not violence.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yeah none of that really rebutes what I said
666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Pigs
Dookieman12@piefed.social 1 week ago
Over 60% of gun deaths in the US are suicides. Of the shooting deaths remaining, the overwhelming majority are committed by police. The overwhelming majority of “mass shootings” that are counted in statistics are committed by police.
But I can tell you’re not here to participate in good faith discussion; you just want to hear strangers on the internet say what you think.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Not here to participate in good faith
“Good faith” here is saying that there is no correlation between institutional racism and gun violence? That the socioethnic group that’s specifically been calling out for years about about the lack of effective policing and community investment is just… making it up?
Did you actually think I was here to make some “muh fbi statistics” point and dip?
The point that I was trying to make is that there is one minority group that commits the majority of gun violence in the US, which is young, black, opportunity-deprived black men. The biggest victim of gun violence is black men. The biggest perpetrator of gun violence is black men. The most common form of gun violence is black man on black man. The reasons for why gun violence is so prevalent have been well understood for decades at this point and are the legacies of segregation, white flight, and contemporary institutional racism. Acting like these aren’t connected, that gun violence is something that happens at random with no correlation to social power structures, and that, as a result, black men aren’t the specified victims of it (as both immediate victim and victim of circumstances (re: attacker)), accomplishes nothing and ensures that more black men will die, disproportionately, every day because you’re too scared to identify an uncomfortable correlation.
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
The Swizz, obviously
nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Toddlers that grab carelessly left guns and play with them I think
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 week ago
14-24 year old impoverished young men forced to live in urban hellscapes with no legitimate opportunity for economic advancement comprise the bulk of both murderer and murdered.
It’s almost like systematically forcing people into desperation results in profound violence.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yes! This narrows the original question down to addressing some very tangible and specific problems
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 week ago
Indeed. Systemic problems need systemic solutions.
Home Ownership is the single largest factor affecting poverty rates. We need to drive everyone toward home ownership rather than renting. Renting should only be feasible for small-time landlords who live on one unit of a duplex, triplex, or quadplex. Apartment buildings should be converted to condominiums. Land Contracts (basically rental agreements with fixed monthly rates that automatically convert to mortgages after three years) should replace traditional rental agreements with their annual rent hikes. All that is easily achievable by offering owner-occupant credits to property taxes, then jacking up the tax rate on investment properties beyond a rate where renting could be profitable. With renting generally infeasible, landlords will be pushing tenants to become buyers instead, mostly through tenant-favoring land contracts instead of landlord-favoring rental agreements.
We desperately need universal healthcare replacing our employer-sponsored healthcare standard, including optometry and dental coverage.
Prison reformation: Prisoners need to earn at least minimum wage for their labor. Their spending can be restricted while in prison, and their saved wages released as a monthly or weekly allowance after their release, but their labor needs to lead to economic gains, or we are just creating recidivism.
Universal Basic Income needs to be phased in. We can start with $20/wk for every man, woman, and child in the country, and increase it periodically.