Fearful Minorities Buying Up Guns

[Carol]

The subject of this thread is an excellent opportunity to use the scientific method to understand our reality and use variable information for decision making.   

Thanks to the Washington Post, I discovered this rather astounding chart showing the different rates of gun deaths for blacks and whites. For whites, “77 percent of gun deaths are suicides.” For black Americans, 82 percent die from homicide: The next interesting statistic is that this high homicide rate comes from a population with a much lower rate of gun ownership. Roughly “41 percent of white households own guns, compared with to just 19 percent of black households.” In other words, when it comes to guns — white and black Americans live different lives. White Americans don’t experience much criminal gun violence but have much greater experience with guns. Widespread gun ownership doesn’t lead to criminal carnage, so fear-based gun control arguments simply don’t ring true.  The experience of black communities, by contrast, shows that unless there are effective legal, political, and cultural efforts to thwart the criminal class, even much lower rates of gun ownership won’t stop widespread violence. It doesn’t take many armed and angry people to exact a terrible toll. Black America has a rate of gun ownership that gun controllers would long to achieve for the rest of the country, yet it still suffers from a horrifying level of homicide.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/428...un-control

[Syne]

Does the news look more believable when a fantastic looking blue eyed blonde is reporting it, no matter what the bias is? She probably owns 10 guns, who knows? 

Are minorities buying guns because they're outgunned by the majority? Am I to believe this is the case? 

Sometimes I think of an area like the Middle East for instance, seems to me that the entire population there has some form of PTSD. I mean they're in constant fear of an early violent death/war plus they witness it on a daily basis. Seems like we're getting to that stage in North America too. Countries full of people at different levels of depression owning firearms can't be good. The news agencies just keep pouring gas on the flame of emotions, violence and great looking people sell medicines * etc. along with other merchandise. 

* - I don't know what's worse ....a country full of potentially homicidal perps or the side effects of the shilled medications.

Yeah, I would expect it to take a lot of fear mongering for people to overcome all the hurdles to gun ownership in many leftist states. If the civilian population in the Middle East were better armed, maybe they wouldn't have to live in fear and flee their own homes. Of course, that presumes they have something worth fighting for in the first place.

Fewer jobs means more idle people, which is a recipe for depression. Medication side-effects, even of drugs meant to help depression, don't help.

My hope is that the fear will make more people aware of the need to be self-sufficient and take responsibility for things like their own safety.