Poor people are always more violent.
Whether they be black, Hispanic, or whites. There are Mexican gangs, Central American gangs, and the meth epidemic is creating its own culture of white violence in the midwest, South and other rural pockets. And we all know what's happening in the Indian Nations. The Mystic Warriors of the Plains
were destroyed in a generation as a culture. It wasn't guns or booze that finished them off. Without the bison, they were unemployed, and on reservations, they were in the ghetto.
It's not what you might think, that they're poor and need money to buy food or shoes for their kids. I wish it were that easy or that simple. It's that the culture breaks down, family structures collapse, community institutions like the church and business fail. Crime becomes the only way to make money, and after a while gangs move in to fill the vacuum. Last century it happened with the Irish, the Jews (yes, there were Jewish gangsters), the Italians, and now it's the turn of the Russians.
These are people the system can't use, they are surplus. And when a community is not able to fully participate in the economic life of the nation, it falls apart.
Of course, if you would rather think its just the result of inferior DNA, you'll find plenty who will agree with you.
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- 250 years of school shootings
- People are going to get sick no matter what we do, so why bother building hospitals?
- If you're suggesting there is nothing we can do to stop gun violence, I disagree n/t
- I'm not suggesting any such thing.
- Funny, I was't trying to make a point. n/t
- I noticed that
- The pornography analogy is apt.
- and
- "I’m sure you can guess where I think gun violence comes from."
- Please proceed.
- Black on Black or gang related for starters. n/t
- Citizens are citizens.
- Gangs of New York
- See? Thread's already dead.
- Black on Black or gang related for starters. n/t
- Please proceed.
- Maybe the problem is the underlying premise that something can always be "done."
- Cooler heads.
- The pornography analogy is apt.
- And yet, you did.
- I noticed that
- Funny, I was't trying to make a point. n/t
- I'm not suggesting any such thing.
- If you're suggesting there is nothing we can do to stop gun violence, I disagree n/t
- People are going to get sick no matter what we do, so why bother building hospitals?