Very true, and I can’t argue with your point.
The data shows for the USA that there’s a huge swing towards gun violence in the black/African American population, but you don’t have to look far to also see higher proportions of generational poverty, drug use and abuse and resultant crime, broken families, lack of education and incarceration rates in that community too.
It’s a safe assumption then that gun crime is linked to lower socio economic indicators, which would involve resetting those systemic inequalities so that community can help themselves.
That's not entirely true and is a false link. Or at least socio economic factors are not the root cause and just the symptoms.
The direct link to crime is lack of a father figure which is tied to how a given culture views fatherhood. This is your root cause and is independent of race and other factors.
Stricter gun laws do nothing to address the root cause and just remove more rights from law abiding citizens. They're nothing more than feel good "solutions" that completely avoid addressing the larger issue. It's like watering the plants when the house is on fire.
You seldom see though, mass shootings being carried out by black perpetrators.
Increasingly those are mentally ill young white men, ostracised by the mainstream or religious extremists.
I do agree there is a mental illness problem, but don't agree increases are limited to young white men. The media may portray it as such, but that doesn't make it true. Facts show if you take all types of mental illness into account, percentage of demographic wise, it's split evenly with race. There's some disproportion by individual mental illness, but overall pretty even. Gender on the other hand... Women are more likely to have a mental illness than men. So trying to say it's white men who are more/increasingly mentally ill fails on both counts.
On mass shootings there's way too much manipulation of statistics to make any claims.
First there's been a low number of what has been officially classified as a mass shooting overall; something like 150 since 1980 in the US.
Second, there's no single definition of a mass shooting. What constitutes a mass shooting? What factors are included/excluded? What's the minimum threshold for number of victims/injured? Are multiple victim homicides included? Are "terror attacks" classified as mass shootings?
You get the point... No clear definition so almost anything can be classified as a mass shooting which renders any statistic useless.
I fucking hate that everyone can’t be trusted with a firearm, but the sad fact is that mental illness is the last thing which the governments of your country or mine throw money, time or long term solutions and resources at to fix.
Agreed. Don't know about Australia, but in the US mental illness is being indulged not treated.
