Re: Shooting of the Week
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2018 9:36 am
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Michael wrote:
Bao wrote:
oragami_itto wrote:If it happened in the inner cities it wouldn't be news. Plus they all have metal detectors and armed security due to gang violence in the 80s. They tend to handle things out of school
Steve James wrote:oragami_itto wrote:If it happened in the inner cities it wouldn't be news. Plus they all have metal detectors and armed security due to gang violence in the 80s. They tend to handle things out of school
The fact is that most urban violence anywhere is directly related to crime. In places where there is a large gang presence, that's where most of the mass killings occur. People point to Chicago or Detroit, but not to NYC. There are cities in Alaska with higher rates of violent crime, per capita. http://bismarcktribune.com/news/nationa ... 8e.html#31
"Inner city" is just a post-Civil Rights era euphemism (or dog-whistle) for "where the poor and non-Whites live." It's used to explain high crime and high incarceration rates, and often as a rationale for gun ownership. Ironically, the places where the gun laws are loosest are the places where most of these mass shootings occur. The result is that those places make it even easier to buy weapons.
Yeah, metal detectors work, but there weren't any mass shootings in schools before the detectors were installed. We are certainly due for one, if they care predictable in any way. Otoh, they don't happen in any other country with this frequency. If it's mental illness, it's an American mental illness.
Sure there were mass shootings before the detectors were installed, that's why they were installed. Charles Whitman was the earliest modern indiscriminate shooter I can think of, Brenda Ann Spencer the next. That's just off the top of my head.
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