“Murder isn’t a nationwide problem. It’s a problem in a small set of urban areas …”
As it turns out, DEMOCRAT areas. Urban areas. Democrat cities. The ones with the harshest gun control laws.
How’s that working out for them?
That image above is correct – if you look at the summary numbers only. But Dr. John Lott is a researcher and looks at the breakdown statistics. If you do what he did, that 189th number is absolutely correct. Despite how the media, in their roles of being Democrat Party ancillary mouthpieces and partisans (who generally don’t know the difference between a firing pin and a bobby pin), trumpets almost everything as a tragedy that can only be solved by More And Bigger Government, yammer constantly that our Right to Keep And Bear Arms must be demoted to mere cap guns.
Abstracted:
- Over 3,000 counties exist in the US
- Majority of US counties had ZERO murders (52%)
- WORST 1% of US counties (31) had 42% of all murders
- WORST 2% of US counties (62) had 56% of all murders
Firearm Ownership – inverse relationship to the rate of gun ownership and gun violence crime/murder
- Rural area gun ownership is 79% > than in urban areas
- Suburban areas gun ownership is 37.9% > urban areas
- Urban areas => lower gun ownership has higher run murder rates
“Correlation between politics and crime?” – The five U.S. cities with the highest per capita murder rates are:
- St. Louis (69.4 per 100,000 population)
- Baltimore (51.1)
- New Orleans (40.6)
- Detroit (39.7)
- Cleveland (33.7)
In the 2020 presidential election, Joe Biden (Democrat) got:
- 82 percent of the vote in St. Louis
- 87 percent in Baltimore
- 83 percent in New Orleans
- 94 percent in Detroit
- 80 percent in Cleveland.
In other words, the most dangerous cities in America are all Democratic Party strongholds.
It isn’t about the inanimate object – a gun. It isn’t about “violence” – it’s about crime. Who or what commits crimes?
People. Just not all people, just some. Actually, a very small number of people. In Democrat cities. Why those people, then?
Policies and culture. Democrat-spawned policies that are never reviewed for inconsistencies and corrected when they are wrong. Policies that stem from ideological/racial bias and must be adhered to no matter what.
And culture. IMHO, while policies (like catch and release, no consequences applied to fit the crimes) determine much, it’s the culture. If life doesn’t matter, that crime doesn’t matter, that the tribalism exhibited by gangs and their turf wars over street corners and actions (various forms of vice and violent crimes). And tribalism yields crimes against the other tribes gangs in protecting their turf. The politicians keep the police from doing their jobs and we’ve seen that Democrat judicial system is just a rotating door – in you come and out you go.
And this is why the urban and national Democrats hate the more rural areas – we ARE better, with our culture, than they are.
(Image H/T: Powerline, H/T: American Spectator via Instapundit)
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