GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE, OR DO THEY?

[BlueTiki]

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 local 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.

And, your 90% black and Hispanic offender numbers are specific to Chicago only, right?

I like your idea, HotD, as having it deemed a "public health crisis" . . . more so than global warming.

Jimbone might not be too far off in his stats.

The CDC's (2013) numbers of Assault/Homicide by firearms show an extremely higher rate of black males being killed, as a percentage of the population, than whites.

Here's the numbers:

Black Males - 5,732 killed

White Males - 1,950 killed

Hispanic Males - 1,530 killed

Again . . . it doesn't classify the race of the shooter.

Maybe whitey is on a killing spree?

Or it's the reason there is a disproportionate amount of colored incarcerated?