Comment on Why is gun violence lower in Switzerland than in the US?

• 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.

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  • PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yeah none of that really rebutes what I said

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    • Jiggle_Physics@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It wasn’t supposed to

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      • PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I’m just going to repost my comment above because I think you should read it too and might not see it otherwise:

        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.

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      you asked who does the shootings in the us, and it is statistically solely WHITE males, usually incels, fundamentalists. are you a conservative.

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