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Originally Posted by hip hop bunny hop
No. If this were true we'd see higher rates of gun violence in the more recently settled territories of this country; we don't. Were your theory true the Dakotas, Wyoming, & Idaho wouldn't be among the least violent states when it comes to gun crimes. You're forgetting that this nation isn't monocultural, monoracial, or ethnically homogenous. We see disparities in violent crime amongst these various groups, most notably amongst the so-called "nams", which means non-asian minoritys, as they are over-represented in violent crime.
There is a neat survey of victims of violent/property crime which includes breakdowns by race/ethnicity of the attacker & victim link. |
Using the ethnic minorities example, is always a weak card to play. We've discussed this on another thread before. Most recent immigrants into a 1st world country are going to enter it at the bottom end of the socio-economic scale and are going to be living in more deprived areas etc where higher crime is always more evident. You stick whites into these types of deprived areas and you are going to more or less get the same type of crime figures.
My reference to gun culture and where I believed it stemmed from, is just historical and was aimed at the whole country and not just to certain frontier type states.