Good question
Kevin wonders why folks like Laura Washington want gun laws aimed at us white men from suburban and rural areas when overwhelmingly the victims and perpetrators of murder are, err, not white men from suburban and rural areas.
In other news, Uncleisms?
September 26th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
For anyone that’s interested, the FBI has just released 2006 crime statistics at the following site:
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2006/index.html
For more information on homicides, you might start with Tables 3, 5, and 7 at this link:
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2006/offenses/expanded_information/homicide.html
The tables fail to note that the US white population is slightly more than 6 times as large as the US black population.
September 26th, 2007 at 8:26 pm
Does this Laura chick know that some of the first gun laws in the U.S. were designed to keep guns out the hands of blacks and other racial minorities?
September 27th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
I think the most eye-opening thing in the stats PN NJ posted are the “Murders by explosive”. I want more info, right now. 😀
September 28th, 2007 at 8:52 am
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