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.