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Originally Posted by nfotiu
On the other hand, the us murder rate is 4.2, while Canada is 1.6. Not nearly the difference when you look at it that way. The telling statistic though is that the black murder rate in the us is about 15 and the white murder rate is around 2.5. The US has a race problem much more than it has a gun problem.
While banning assault rifles and getting people mental health help are both good things, they are not going to save any kind of significantly statistical amounts of lives. Focusing resources and efforts on these types of things will help people who feel lke they need to do something, but if saving lives that are lost to preventable deaths is the goal, it is not where our efforts should be focused.
And if it is the murder rate that we want to go down, we need to figure out why black people are killing each other and what could be done to help. Because my guess is the motivations and reasons for murder are a lot different in a poor black community than they are for a young middle class mass murderer.
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There have been numerous studies done over the years of how the war on drugs has contributed to the vicious cycle of crime in the black community. Father is sent to jail because of the stupid 'possession' laws, child grows up without father figure, child is more likely to resort to 'crime' because his father figure is the local gang leader.
There have also been studies done that have shown that effective social services, i.e. 'welfare', do more to lower the murder/crime rate than ANY law banning guns has ever done.
The reason the US has such a higher gun crime rate has as much to do with the fact that so many live in poverty, or are considered part of the lower class with NO WAY up, as it has to do with easy access to guns and such a high amount of firearms existing in the US.