Thursday - February 04, 2010

Good Data, Bad Conclusion

Calls to limit the access of African-Americans to firearms specifically echo the “black codes” adopted immediately at the end of the Civil War. These laws were passed in southern states in response to the Thirteenth Amendment’s outlawing of slavery, and were specifically engineered to circumscribe the civil rights and liberties of newly freed slaves and freemen. The codes assured the second-class status of African-Americans, and were a forerunner to decades of “separate but equal” segregation under Jim Crow laws — which were only overcome during the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Among the codes commonly passed were laws that forbid or restricted the ownership of firearms by African-Americans. The codes were “justified” with the explanation that African-Americans did not have the same rights as white citizens.

Calls to limit the access of African-Americans to firearms specifically echo the “black codes” adopted immediately at the end of the Civil War. These laws were passed in southern states in response to the Thirteenth Amendment’s outlawing of slavery, and were specifically engineered to circumscribe the civil rights and liberties of newly freed slaves and freemen. The codes assured the second-class status of African-Americans, and were a forerunner to decades of “separate but equal” segregation under Jim Crow laws — which were only overcome during the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Among the codes commonly passed were laws that forbid or restricted the ownership of firearms by African-Americans. The codes were “justified” with the explanation that African-Americans did not have the same rights as white citizens.

From VPC’s report:

Introduction

America is facing an epidemic of homicide among young black males.

According to a recent study conducted by Professor James Alan Fox of Northeastern University, one of the nation’s leading criminal justice researchers, from 2002 to 2007 the number of black male juvenile homicide victims rose by 31 percent. The number of young black homicide victims killed by guns rose at an even sharper rate: 54 percent.

This study examines the growing problem of black homicide victimization at the state level.

The devastation homicide inflicts on black teens and adults is a national crisis, yet it is all too often ignored outside of affected communities. This study analyzes unpublished Supplementary Homicide Report (SHR)2 data for black homicide submitted to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The information used for this report is for the year 2007 and is the most recent data available. This is the first analysis of the 2007 data on black homicide victims to offer breakdowns of cases in the five states with the highest black homicide victimization rates and the first to rank the states by the rate of black homicides.

Gender
Of the 7,387 black homicide victims, 6,345 (86 percent) were male, and 1,042 (14 percent) were female. The homicide rate for black male victims was 37.59 per 100,000. In comparison, the overall rate for male homicide victims was 8.56 per 100,000. For white male homicide victims it was 4.63 per 100,000. The homicide rate for female black victims was 5.62 per 100,000. In comparison, the overall rate for female homicide victims was 2.11 per 100,000. For white female homicide victims it was 1.61 per 100,000.

Age
Six hundred seventy-four black homicide victims (9 percent) were less than 18 years old and 150 black homicide victims (2 percent) were 65 years of age or older. The average age was 30 years old.

Most Common Weapons
For homicides in which the weapon used could be identified, 82 percent of black victims (5,743 out of 7,011) were shot and killed with guns. Of these, 73 percent (4,204 victims) were killed with handguns. There were 701 victims killed with knives or other cutting instruments, 247 victims killed by bodily force, and 200 victims killed by a blunt object.

Victim/Offender Relationship
For homicides in which the victim to offender relationship could be identified, 72 percent of black victims (2,474 out of 3,431) were murdered by someone they knew. Nine hundred fifty-seven victims were killed by strangers.

Conclusion
Blacks in the United States are disproportionately affected by homicide. For the year 2007, blacks represented 13 percent of the nation’s population, yet accounted for 49 percent of all homicide victims.
As noted at the beginning of this study, the devastation homicide inflicts on black teens and adults is a national crisis, yet it is all too often ignored outside of affected communities. For blacks, like all victims of homicide, guns—usually handguns—are far and away the number one murder tool. Successful efforts to reduce America’s black homicide toll must put a focus on reducing access to firearms.

Not one word about figuring out a way to teach these young men respect for human life, or anger management, or anything positive like that. Nope. Best to just disarm them all, since they’ve proven they can’t be trusted with a gun.

Like eugenics, the other left wing “solution” to a problem, this one draws the wrongest possible conclusion from otherwise accurate data. And this from the camp that is made up of our superiors, the folks who know better and believe they should be empowered to tell us what to do. For our own good, right Hillary?

[ to be completely fair to the VPC, they are for disarming everyone. But this paper of theirs speaks specifically about the violence endemic among black people. So their call to reduce access to firearms must be taken in context: they are talking about disarming black people. Later on they’ll get around to disarming everyone else. ]

One commenter at Pajamas Media put the proper solution in a golden nutshell: ”Laws don’t prevent crime, civilized culture prevents crime.” Darn shame we live in such a PC-delimited world. Once upon a time, in a more forthright age, the task of permeating civilized culture to the black races was called ”the white man’s burden”. But even then the perils were known:

Take up the White Man’s burden--
The savage wars of peace--
Fill full the mouth of Famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hopes to nought.

So who will tame the savage breast? The “savages” themselves. It’s a bootstrap lifting thing that has to come from within. Damn shame that 60+ years worth of “free footwear” has only given the “abos” more desire to go barefoot.

Posted by Drew458     on 02/04/2010 at 12:38 PM   
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