Bearing Arms:
While there’s no real discussion about murders being bad people, the implication is that their victims are innocent souls. Of course, we know that’s not universal by any means. We know that those involved with street gangs are less likely to hit 30 than those who have no such involvement, yet our minds still think of most homicide victims as innocent.
A new study looking at homicide victims in Baltimore has some very interesting results.
Homicides in Baltimore largely involve criminals killing criminals. 82% of Victims have criminal record. The average victim had 10.8 arrests, with 4.1 of those being drug offenses. Sixty-seven percent had an arrest record for drugs. Forty-four percent had an arrest record for gun crimes. Twenty-nine percent of victims were clearly known by the police to be members of “drug crews or gang” members. Obviously, some of those 18% who didn’t have an arrest record were probably also engaging in or suspected of criminal activity.
So what gives?
Well, a while back, I wrote about how it seems most of the violence in any community is generally confined to a handful of neighborhoods. Coupled with this data above, a somewhat obvious picture emerges. read more
Of more importance study finds people become tyrants and snitches when restraints are lifted.
Birds of a feather flock together…and then kill each other. It sounds about right from my experience.
This article is so racist!
I remember planning a youth service project trip to New Orleans in 2007, 2 years after Katrina. One of the parents asked me what dangers there were and how I was prepared. I responded that heat and hydration issues were the primary concern. But also that I knew N.O. had the highest murder rate in the country. However, it was all criminal on criminal, there really was very little risk to others. And it was true.
A little dicier the following year. We stayed at a Methodist church in a rather poor section of town. Entire church was fenced in. Our brand-new young pastor decided to go for a Sunday afternoon run, broad daylight, and although I don’t think he was really at risk a few porch-sitting residents told him he was certainly out of place!
WIN WIN??
I wrote a college paper on my Good Riddance Factor and its applicability to homicide by firearm statistics as reported in the paper and as used by politicians.
Basically my thesis was that if society suffers less net tragedy than the victim’s family suffers by their demise then they don’t get to be counted as a victim for the purpose of advancing gun control.
It started what the Dean called a shitstorm.
Why limit this study to homicide victims. How many criminals are killed by LE or their intended victims?
Funny. I hear gunfire all weekend long in my neighborhood. And never a single fatality.
We must be bad marksmen.
Lol.
Kids, don’t get involved with criminal enterprises. That’s all I’m going to say. Except this: IT WASN’T A ROBBERY GONE BAD.
Father Flanagan was full of shit. There is such a thing as a bad kid. I’ve known more than one and in the case of my brother’s ex girlfriend’s punk ass bitch of a kid even his mother hoped someone would kill him as soon as he got out of prison, before he got a chance to cause yet another innocent person to suffer.
In other news, water is still wet.
But families don’t matter and a kid doesn’t need a father.
This is a sad but true tale.
I went to a funeral for a father-in-law. A grandson of this man ran up to every male in attendance asking if he was his father.
Obviously nobody was.
This kid is now serving life for Murder
I probably should have done something better. Even if I wasn’t his father.
Easter repentance for not being a better servant of the Lord.
Poor kid. I should have done more.
There’s some stat out there somewhere; If you take away the murders in Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, St. Louis and maybe a few other similar hellholes, the USA has one of the lowest murder rates in the world. Add in those culturally enriched, liberal hellholes and we’re one of the world’s most murderous places.
I’ve always said that if the progtards are successful in getting gun confiscation passed, it should start in the highest crime neighborhoods (for the children!). It wouldn’t last two weeks.
The loser of a gangland gunfight is a homicide victim.