AnalHamster wrote: ↑Sat Jul 11, 2020 6:32 am
Cassandros wrote: ↑Fri Jul 10, 2020 11:40 pm
AnalHamster wrote: ↑Fri Jul 10, 2020 7:41 am
Russia is a developing country, not a developed one. If you want to have a discussion you can go back, re read what I wrote and respond to it. If you're going to start out with the dodges there's just no point.
Yeah, I don't at all agree with the IMF on Russia.
Also, areas in the US that have embraced the ghetto culture are effectively third world pockets in a first world country.
Hence why the comparison is still apt. If you took all these areas out of the equation I bet the US looks just like the rest of your list.
It does not. Just like the rest of the world you can bring your stats down by randomly declaring the worst parts of the country don't count, but not to levels that compare favourably to the rest of the developed world. You still have a gun problem. Try reading the research I posted.
First, your "research" is a bit biased as it wants to editorialize its findings, and I quote:
These data cannot tell us why the US homicide rate is so exceptional compared with these other high-income countries. Maybe the United States is a more violent country.
Second: It most certainly does.
Not sure why the key didn't transfer, so here is the manual version
Dark blue = Very high income
Light blue = High income
Yellow = Middle income
Light Orange = Low income
Orange = Very low income
https://www.wbez.org/stories/the-middle ... 17d4fb1b0b
https://www.thetrace.org/2018/12/gun-vi ... -map-data/
Denial of reality is a bullshit stance.
Another compared his current neighborhood in Hartford, Connecticut, to a poorer one to the east and a more affluent one to the west, and found a link between poverty and the number of shootings.
Poverty and the ghetto culture tend to go hand in hand.
Its not guns, its not just 'more violent', its not racism: its culture. A ghetto culture that has been allowed to flourish and grow within many major cities. Nothing will change so long as this culture isn't looked at and ways are implemented to get people away from it.
And I'll tell you what, one must really enjoy seeing people suffer to push false narratives that give a pass to this root problem.