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

• PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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  • Jiggle_Physics@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I actually am very well acquainted with this. I did data analysis for the corrections system for almost a decade. Worked with universities, and other government offices, and bodies, on this subject, and it’s surrounding subjects. I honestly know more about this than almost anyone who’s profession never crossed into studying and analyzing this subject.

    This is not the place to be having an academic conversation on the material conditions that drive poverty, and centuries of intentional disenfranchisement, and how those result in criminal behavior, problems with education, recidivism, impulse control, calculated violence, and the endless other factors that play into this situation, many we are just starting realize even are factors. I haven’t worked in it in about 10 years, so I am currently out of date outside of jaunts to update specific things when stuff like this comes up.

    if you would like I can recommend some reading though.

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