07-24-2015, 05:58 PM
(07-24-2015, 04:50 PM)Jimbone Wrote: The per capita number may be higher in those places, but the causes and the demographic of the people dying from the violence are the same.
So, then, it's not a "metropolitan" problem, nor is it an Obama-caused problem, right?
Maybe it would be a good thing if the new U.S. Surgeon General, the seven largest medical groups inclusive of most U.S. physicians, and some community leaders/citizens succeeded in getting gun violence (and other types of high-volume violence) classified as a "public health crisis"?
That way, the CDC could accept the government funding to study the causes/impacts, track and monitor the incidents consistently across locales/states, and accumulate some meaningful data that could be sliced in different ways and studied over time?
As it stands, no one is doing that and the data is all over the place. The data is spotty at best because the pro-gun politicians block the funding for such research. They don't want more helpful data to be available because their fear that it might be used to support arguments for more gun-related controls and safety measures exceeds their desire to better understand the roots and extent of the problem in order to better address the problem, IMO.
And, your 90% black and Hispanic offender numbers are specific to Chicago only, right? How does that match up to the percentage of the general population there? Those percentages, of course, don't line up with with breakdown nationwide, not even in the same ballpark.