Fortune Favors The Bold

harryh:

Mass shootings of middle class white people by the obviously insane are not a real problem. This sort of thing is incredibly rare.  You’re more likely to get struck by lightning.

The real problem is socioeconomic.  Despite making up only 13% of the population 50% of the murder victims in the US every year are African American, and the bulk of them are poor.  So let’s talk about how much racism is a problem. Let’s talk about the underclass.  Let’s talk about the drug war.  Let’s talk about huge portions of our major cities that are still engulfed by crime on a day-to-day basis. Let’s talk about the real broken parts of our culture and what can be done about it.

If we want to call on our politicians to talk about problems let’s at least ask them to talk about real problems and not overhyped media panics.

Cosign. I’m not one to assign rank to public health issues, but I’m in full support of any plan that helps solve violent crime issues in poor inner-city neighborhoods. Entire clusters of NYC zipcodes are blighted wastelands unfit for unguarded travel, while so many of their upper class neighbors live lives of shocking conspicuous consumption. I would put that on my list of things to worry about far above suburban gun control. NYC has some of the strictest gun control conditions in the nation, and yet I’m sure you’ll see more than 12 homicides by the end of the week.

(Source: inothernews)