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[–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Over 60% of gun deaths in the US are suicides. Of the shooting deaths remaining, the overwhelming majority are committed by police. The overwhelming majority of "mass shootings" that are counted in statistics are committed by police.

But I can tell you're not here to participate in good faith discussion; you just want to hear strangers on the internet say what you think.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Not here to participate in good faith

    "Good faith" here is saying that there is no correlation between institutional racism and gun violence? That the socioethnic group that's specifically been calling out for years about about the lack of effective policing and community investment is just... making it up?

    Did you actually think I was here to make some "muh fbi statistics" point and dip?

    The point that I was trying to make is that there is one minority group that commits the majority of gun violence in the US, which is young, black, opportunity-deprived black men. The biggest victim of gun violence is black men. The biggest perpetrator of gun violence is black men. The most common form of gun violence is black man on black man. The reasons for why gun violence is so prevalent have been well understood for decades at this point and are the legacies of segregation, white flight, and contemporary institutional racism. Acting like these aren't connected, that gun violence is something that happens at random with no correlation to social power structures, and that, as a result, black men aren't the specified victims of it (as both immediate victim and victim of circumstances (re: attacker)), accomplishes nothing and ensures that more black men will die, disproportionately, every day because you're too scared to identify an uncomfortable correlation.

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