re: Interesting new research data on guns in America

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so to make some seeping generalization like "black people are more violent" is false. it's a small subset of that group it's not some abject race thing (as i've said a few times in this thread)

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I am not arguing that point. Incidence is simply not proof of causality. Even if one was to argue a predominance of violence in any particular demographic based on the clearly defined data, it would be wise to address the social, spiritual, and cultural differences of that demographic not the genetic differences determining integumentary phenotype.

However there is good evidence (much more than what I was able to piece together in a 15 min Google search) indicating blacks are both the most common perpetuators of murder by firearms and the most common victims of firearm murder. Incidentally Latinos fall into the second place for both of those positions. It is simply silly to make statements that it is all about poverty. Clearly, impoverished predominantly non black communities or predominantly non Hispanic communities do not statistically have the same problem with gun violence.