Posted on 05/22/2008 8:54:37 AM PDT by holymoly
The lamestream media told you:
Gun deaths and gun violence are a national scourge that must be met with strict common-sense gun laws, to prevent rampant violence in society. Everyone is affected, so everyone must be subject to controls.
The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:
In an effort to prove the “news” myth paraphrased above, The Baltimore Sun, which features standard anti-gun-rights bias in its reporting, published an interactive map of homicides in the Baltimore area.
Unfortunately for its inventors, the map only confirms what rights advocates have been declaring for decades — it’s not a gun problem, it’s a demographic problem — with social, economic and geographic components the political community refuses to admit. If they did, the fundamentally demographic nature of the enigma would emerge, and despite the horrifying facts, they would risk being called bad names.
The maps say it all. The data sets here are for all of 2007, Baltimore area, all forms of homicide (blue is choking, green is blunt force, red is shooting, black is stabbing, white is undetermined).
And don’t shoot me, I’m only the messenger, blame the newspaper for letting the dirty little secret out — it’s not a gun or murder problem, it’s a demographic problem.
These Baltimore Sun maps show a terrible problem but do not clarify who the murderers are.
Baltimore Sun map of PEOPLE murdered, 2007:
Baltimore Sun map of BLACKS murdered, 2007:
Baltimore Sun map of WHITES murdered, 2007:
“The lack of diversity is blatant and appalling,” said one unidentified observer. Another suggested the results could reflect the city’s makeup, but whites outnumber blacks there by more than two to one (3.5MM to 1.6MM). You can pick your own data and see the Baltimore Sun’s results, for time periods, races, ages, homicide types, genders and more. Play with the map yourself, it’s fun.
Clearly racism is involved here, so that charge should take all the killers off the street toot sweet, regardless of their race.
Right?
Right?
Is this thing on?
lol
“the fundamentally demographic nature of the enigma would emerge”
As well as the foundational ideology that created it?
“Gun deaths and gun violence are a national scourge that must be met with strict common-sense gun laws”
Right because when you outlaw guns, people stop buying them. /s off
Right. The Honkeys out there aren't doing enough to get themselves murdered in the appropriate numbers.
Using the left’s own weapon against them! The results of playing with the map definitely are not PC.
Going on a suggestion someone made earlier, the rational thing for an anti-gunner to want here would be to make gun ownership illegal for blacks.
On thing that has always bothered me is the “stop black on black crime” theme. The obvious implication is that if you are going to kill, why not kill whitey instead.
What they really want is murderers to be unbiased and kill just as many blacks as whites. One for one ratio.
Actually this isn't exactly true...the 3.5MM number is the entire Baltimore-Washington Metro area which is a HUGE expanse extending from NE Maryland into Eastern West Virginia. Baltimore PROPER, which is reflected on the map is 64.34% Black or African American, 31.63% White.
Furthermore, the areas these crimes occurred are mostly Black neighborhoods.
That can be inferred, but its not shown. Only the victims are shown. If the perp information was available, it would likely be exactly what you infer and even worse than what the victims' race would indicate.
why are we still asking the race of an individual? That should be against the law.
Or to use lefty logic, "guns don't kill, black people do," and endorse exile of black people, or Sangerization.
Or we could all just be reasonable and close the public schools, endorse family values and throw out the gun laws.
Clearly there are several things wrong with this:
1. Where are the Asian and Hispanic murders? Clearly the city needs to take appropriate measures to increase those numbers.
2. The push pin colors are all wrong. Clearly stabbings cause more blood than shootings. The stabbings should have red push pins and the shootings have black (for the color of gun powder).
3. The city needs to require their citizens to wear oven mitts at all times, in order to make choking more difficult to perform.
4. The push pins should be much smaller, in order to reduce the magnitude of the problem.
Fair enough, but I still don’t see a 2:1 ratio emerging from those maps.
The common factor among the murderers, regardless of race, I’d bet 90% had no father in the home growing up...
>why not kill whitey instead.<
Whitey isn’t trying to move in on your corner where you sell drugs. Whitey isn’t trying to rob you of your stash. Whitey isn’t trying sell dope to your children. Whitey isn’t stoned three quarters of the time and making decisions that he’ll later regret. Life sucks when you aren’t sober.
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