The most violent cities in America are all blue cities.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-city-rankings/most-viol...

And most of that is done by drug dealers fighting over turf. The shootings are highly concentrated in certain geographic areas.

Most cities are blue cities

Shit. Your own source disproves that if you use the most recent data

https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-city-rankings/most-dang...

Take off the minimum population requirement of 100k residents and the most dangerous metro areas are all small, rural conservative towns. https://www.statista.com/statistics/433603/us-metropolitan-a...

Most of those cities on the less than 100k list have Dems in government as well, but imo this isn't a Dem-GOP issue and more of a "urban" versus "rural" issue - specifically these are all cities that have been left behind due to an oversized population of minorities (eg. Anchorage+Fairbanks for Native Americans, Memphis+Pine Bluffs+Monroe+Alexandria+Little Rock for African Americans, ABQ+Lubbock for Latino Americans) and severely deindustrialized (eg. Memphis, ABQ, Lubbock, Little Rock, Danville) due to bipartisan support of globalization in the 1990s and the collapse of the energy sector in the 1990s-2000s

>muh red cities

>muh blue cities

>deflecting from the larger point and arguing about team colors

It's all so tiresome.

It's not only tiresome, it's unproductive. Why it's the case is probably for a whole host of reasons - generally poor education, media, cultural.

Virtually all large cities in the US are blue, even in otherwise rabidly red states.

Mass shootings are technically any that have a victim count over a certain number and the vast majority of those are committed by criminals with cheap weapons.

Guns are not expensive, they're way cheaper than a car. The Hipoint C9 retails new for $199. If you can afford a mobile phone (read: almost everyone in the USA) you can afford multiple guns.

And yet the mass shooters specifically targeting minorities seem to use $1k+ AR-pattern rifles (recently with neo-Nazi shit scrawled over them), not those cheap plastic 9mm pistols. Curious!

Those shooters are a fraction of a fraction of the overall rate. Red / blue is the wrong approximation here - selecting where you live based on racial makeup is going to give the most reliable results if you’re looking to avoid crime.

>selecting where you live based on racial makeup is going to give the most reliable results if you’re looking to avoid crime.

Haha holy shit, I never thought I'd see someone just be so casually and brazenly racist. Incredible.

It might be the outcome of racist policies or general racist attitudes but they are statistically correct.

There is a high correlation between between ethnic or racial makeup of a certain area and crime and gun violence. I’m not sure simply handwaving this by calling everyone who points that out a ‘racist’ is the most productive attitude…

Generally the same applies to poverty though which is probably a more direct indicator than race.

>>Generally the same applies to poverty though which is probably a more direct indicator than race.

Not the case in the US, poverty is a bad indicator, race is a good one.

Poorest white crime rates are lower than the richest blacks.

Mind sharing the statistics you got this from?

He got them from 4chan.

He's not wrong though, and you know it deep inside. That's why it bothers you.

Go back to 4chan, please.

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I'm surprised mass shooters all love ARs. A cheap plastic 9mm pistol with hollowpoint rounds is plenty deadly.

School shooters (let's be precise, as that is what people are talking about when talking about mass shootings, not gang violence or other stuff) want to look cool, and ARs are cool looking and everyone markets them up on both sides.

Which is why my simple modification to solve it all is mandate that all firearms be hot pink with a hello kitty logo.