But my black friends are racist too? Haha.. No. They just had to live next to the Joy Road Hit Squad in Detroit growing up in the hood and were trying to make it the right way when a bunch of mindless thugs made their life a living fluffing hell. They know what they are talking about because they lived in gang territory. You can talk all you want over there, like you know what's going on in the states, but if you ever visit I'll take you for a ride in North St. Louis at two in the morning and show you what it's REALLY like.
I've lived my entire life in Caracas, Venezuela.
It's a city that at one point had more casualties per weekend by violent gun crime than there were marine and insurgent deaths per week in "Desert Storm" Irak. Violent crime is so f***ing bad over here that the Minister of Justice cheated statistics by reporting gang-on-gang homicides by a designation so ridiculous, that in my attempt to translate, it might sound something like "Score Settling".
Swinging dicks you say ? I sure am, but I don't appreciate when people try to intimidate me or underestimate my opinions, I am well aware of what violent crime is and what it's consequences are to society.
As for your friends, it is a moot point to discuss, I'm not going to achieve anything there, that much is clear.
It's the multi-cultural society. We have MUCH more diversity than any country in the world here.
That is ridiculously debatable, and a point you yourself might be misunderstanding since you believe there are no sub-cultures in some countries. I wonder what you would say about a nation like Spain, which is also ripe with multi-culturalism, and which funny enough, doesn't have anywhere near the rates of gun violence that the US does.
In the states races are SEGREGATED. Not by law anymore, but by economic factors as well as the paranoia and racism that keeps people to themselves over here.
Why, in the name of all that is holy, are you blaming this issue on multi-culturalism when you are clearly stating there's social issues at work ? That there's an official, public process of maintaining society that is clearly failing ? Why do you turn your attention to the issue of culture when you, on your own, are pointing out the precise issues that make up for the violence in the US ?
I am not being sarcastic, nor am I being an ass, I am asking those questions legitimately.
You say I'm contradicting myself? How? In essence my statement above was that racists believe black people are naturally violent. That it is in their nature to commit violent acts. That is what I think is bullplops.
Because you're saying ethnicity has nothing to do with violent acts, to which you proceed to show statistics that would imply the exact opposite of your point, and rather than pointing out the social issues that are actually relevant (education, healthcare, security) and blaming the right people (public officials, government policies), you insist on blaming the issue on "multi-culturalism" as if it was the direct cause of the issue of violence, when in reality, apart from being morally bankrupt, there is no evidence to back this point,
none.
And how the HELL is that not proof enough that we live in a violent society with a violent minority gang sub-culture? I'm not saying white people aren't as bad or that skin heads are any less violent. I'm just saying that if you want to talk about gun violence in America, let's look at where much of it comes from.
We may have a different view of what "proof" means here, frankly, I'm pretty sure mine is the correct one, but I'll explain:
When we indulge ourselves in saying that something like "multi-culturalism" has a direct effect on creating "violence", it becomes a matter of public and scientific interest, it is a hypothesis about an issue of human concern, to solve an issue like this, we must
study it and ascertain wether the assumption is correct or incorrect by testing the notion with a different assortment of methods, and thus conclude wether it's true or not what we first said.
By that explanation, my deffinition of
proof is when studies, discoveries, research or theories
support any direct, causal link between both multi-culturalism and violence, and NOT when I claim my assertions are correct based simply on my confidence that they are correct.
The point ? If you want to look at gun violence, look at the assumptions that have been proven, look at the direct causes, education is failing in the US, opportunities are failing in the US, healthcare is failing in the US, and those are issues that have an assertively bigger effect on the quality of life of a nation, as well as the emergence of gun violence in a community than diversity of race and culture could ever do in any of our lifetimes.
.......... DO YOU REALIZE A HUNTING RIFLE IS MUCH MORE POWERFUL AND DEADLY THAN AN ASSAULT RIFLE?! Hunting rifles are high caliber, high velocity guns designed to kill large game that weigh as much as a car! Many hunting rifles hold 8-12 shots and can fire as fast as any semi-automatic assault rifle, with more accuracy and far more power. Those are the guns the cops are afraid to go up against, more than anything.
