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Study Shows Gun Laws Don\u2019t Matter, Race Does<\/a><\/p>\n

33 people were shot over the weekend in Chicago. Urban gangland violence like that is what real \u201cmass shootings\u201d look like and finally a Journal of the American Medical Association paper addressed the problem by shifting the blame to something it calls \u201cstructural racism\u201d.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0JAMA paper,<\/a>\u00a0which was quickly picked up by CNN as \u201cStructural Racism may Contribute to Mass Shootings\u201d and by Bloomberg as \u201cMass Shootings Disproportionately Victimize Black Americans\u201d, acknowledged what conservatives have been saying about gun violence.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was no discernible association noted in this study between gun laws and MSEs [mass shootings] with other studies showing similar findings,\u201d it noted.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The issue wasn\u2019t gun laws, it was race. \u201cThe study found that in areas with higher black populations, mass shootings are likelier to occur compared to communities with higher white populations,\u201d CNN reported. \u201cThe findings disrupt the nation\u2019s image of mass shootings, which has been shaped by tragedies like the Las Vegas festival shooting and Sandy Hook in which most of the victims were not black,\u201d Bloomberg added.<\/p>\n

Faced with an immovable statistical object and the unstoppable force of equity, the JAMA paper blames the whole thing on structural racism. The study correlates urban areas and neighborhoods with high concentrations of single-parent households\u201d to mass shootings. It then demonstrates that \u201cstructural racism\u201d must be at fault because of \u201cthe percentage of the population that is black.\u201d Black people in the study are interchangeable with racism.<\/p>\n

Such is the state of woke medical science which tries to fix racism with more racism. The study never comes up with any plausible explanation of how structural racism causes people to shoot each other. At one point it claims that \u201cracial residential segregation practices are predictive of various types of shootings\u201d in a country where segregation had been abolished since 1964.<\/p>\n

The study\u2019s definition of segregation is so senseless that it lists majority black cities like Detroit, a 77% black city, as being 73% segregated, and Baltimore, a 62% black city, as being 64% segregated. A city with a strong black majority and black leaders is racially segregated and its people are suffering from \u201cstructural racism\u201d. That\u2019s why there are so many mass shootings.<\/p>\n

But if segregation is the issue then why does Atlanta, which had actual segregation, have only 18 mass shootings, while Chicago has 141? Southern cities show up as less segregated and less violent in the paper\u2019s data. A history of segregation is clearly not the issue. This isn\u2019t about the past, whether it\u2019s the historical revisionism of the 1619 Project, or any other.<\/p>\n

If segregation were the issue, crime would have been far higher during segregation than after it.<\/p>\n

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Murders actually shot up after the end of segregation. So did most other kinds of crime. (That\u2019s not to suggest that the end of segregation was responsible. After cratering in the fifties, crime was rising sharply even before the end of segregation along with general social breakdowns in which divorce rates rose sharply as did single parent families, Protestant religious denominations declined, so did various forms of institutional allegiance and public confidence.)<\/p>\n

Crime did not turn the corner until the middle of the nineties when, by most accounts, gentrification actually pushed black people out of some neighborhoods resulting in what leftists misleadingly described as \u201cresegregation\u201d. It rose sharply again in response to pro-crime policies such as the elimination of bail, the mass release of criminals from prison during the pandemic, and the end of public safety due to the Black Lives Matter movement.<\/p>\n

Segregation, real or fictional, has nothing to do with crime rates which track more closely with pro-crime policies, whether those of the Warren Court, that began with inventing the right to a lawyer and concluded with banning the death penalty, and with its modern counterparts.<\/p>\n

The JAMA study however sticks to the central premise of anti-racism which is that any black statistical outlers represent systemic racism in action. Higher black crime statistics can only be interpreted as the consequence of white racism even if it means describing Baltimore, a black city with a black mayor and majority black city council, as a segregated city.<\/p>\n

Who is segregating Baltimore and Detroit, or for that matter Atlanta and Chicago? Almost all of the cities that the JAMA study lists as the most segregated, including New York City, Buffalo, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco, have black mayors.<\/p>\n

What magical \u201cstructural racism\u201d is forcing black Democrats to \u201csegregate\u201d their own cities and how does that cause gangs to shoot each other in the street? The JAMA study can\u2019t do much except wave its arms toward generic ideas. \u201cFuture research is needed to develop more specific and sensitive markers of structural racism,\u201d it claims. Unable to even define any kind of causative factor between what it deems to be structural racism and violence, it concludes, as every study does, that more research is needed to explain its inexplicable premise.<\/p>\n

Every time the study bumps into a statistic that contradicts its premise, it shrugs awkwardly. Despite repeatedly blaming poverty, it observes that the \u201chigher firearm injury rate persists even after correcting for income levels. In fact, the rate of gun violence among the highest income levels in Philadelphia was 15.8 times higher for black residents than white.\u201d<\/p>\n

Why are wealthier black people more prone to shooting and being shot? Structural racism.<\/p>\n

\u201cA potential explanation may be related to housing policies, as a long history of redlining has resulted in a higher density of black residents in certain neighborhoods,\u201d the paper claims.<\/p>\n

Today, what\u2019s holding back any black person in the \u201chighest income levels\u201d from living anywhere he wants in Philly? Like Rittenhouse Square. Why could Stephen Smith, born a slave who bought his own freedom, started a lumber business and became the wealthiest black man in America in an era of actual slavery, live without fear of crime or anything except racist mobs?<\/p>\n

The lies of anti-racism lies don\u2019t help black people or anyone else. Gun laws don\u2019t work. Blaming racism doesn\u2019t work. The only thing that works is personal responsibility.<\/p>\n

The cult of anti-racism insists, as the study does, that everything can be explained by waving at the \u201cnormalized and legitimized range of policies, practices, and attitudes that routinely produce cumulative and chronic adverse outcomes for people of color.\u201d Rather than the adverse outcomes being the result of choices from within the community, critical race theory chooses to render black people powerless victims by claiming that their problems all come from outside.<\/p>\n

Structural racism, like guns, doesn\u2019t kill people. Poverty isn\u2019t generational, it\u2019s personal. History doesn\u2019t hold us back, to paraphrase Obama, we are the ones holding ourselves back.<\/p>\n

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Study Shows Gun Laws Don\u2019t Matter, Race Does 33 people were shot over the weekend in Chicago. Urban gangland violence like that is what real \u201cmass shootings\u201d look like and finally a Journal of the American Medical Association paper addressed the problem by shifting the blame to something it calls \u201cstructural racism\u201d. The\u00a0JAMA paper,\u00a0which was … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,43,8,29,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-harsh-but-true","category-rkba","category-safety","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95008,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95007\/revisions\/95008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}