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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: J P Sousa on July 09, 2016, 11:25:20 PM

Title: Who is More Likely to Have a Gun, A Black or White Male ?
Post by: J P Sousa on July 09, 2016, 11:25:20 PM

It could be that cops are more afraid of Blacks than Whites. (yes I'm not politically correct, but isn't being POLITICALY CORRECT the problem today ?)

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  The vast majority (77 percent) of white gun deaths are suicides; less than one in five (19 percent) is a homicide. These figures are nearly opposite in the black population, where only 14 percent of gun deaths are suicides but 82 percent are homicides: 

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/social-mobility-memos/posts/2015/12/15-guns-race-different-worlds-reeves

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  The number of youth who report that they carry weapons is significant. In 1997, 14 percent, or 1 in 7 male juveniles, reported carrying a gun outside the home in the previous 30-day period.9 In the inner city, the problem is more severe. One study involving 800 inner-city high school students reported that 22 percent said they carried weapons.10 An even greater number of convicted juvenile offenders reported carrying guns -- 88 percent, according to another study.11 

http://www.ojjdp.gov/pubs/gun_violence/sect01.html