Captain Obvious Comes To Town

Crime

From John Lott’s guys:

Murders occur overwhelmingly in dense urban areas, many with tough anti-gun restrictions, and far less in suburban and rural areas where firearm ownership is more common, according to a national study of killings.
“This research shows that murders in the U.S. are highly concentrated in tiny areas in the U.S. and that they are becoming even more concentrated in recent years,” said the report from John R. Lott’s Crime Prevention Research Center.

You don’t say.  Next thing you’ll be hearing is that the socio-demographics of these concentrated areas are poor, overwhelmingly Black, and that the guns used to commit the murders have been stolen.

Nah, couldn’t be.  Ask any big-city mayor.

The key to all of this is climate change / racism / white supremacy / thuggish police / all the above.

Except that we all know the truth.

9 comments

  1. Anyone who points out the demographics of those areas publicly will be decried as a Hatey-McHatemonger, and promptly canceled, so I don’t expect that information to enter the mainstream discourse any time soon.

  2. It would be the same if “those people” were white.

    Contemporary “urban” culture is rooted in poor white culture in the antebellum period.

    Right after the liberation of the slaves in the south they were basically kicked off the plantations and then hired back (largely) as field hands. But they weren’t living in their own communities anymore. They started living around and working with poor, largely scotch-irish whites, and absorbed their culture. Long story short, a lot of what looks like “black pathology” today comes from that culture. That culture still exists in rural America–what we call “trailer trash”.

    Also: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-mouse-utopias-1960s-led-grim-predictions-humans-180954423/

    1. I think there’s some difference there. The “We was poor but we was proud” sentiment is (or was) very strong among the poor white trash I’ve known. I have distant inlaws who fit that description. And they never took a dime of govt money, never looked for charity, never begged. They (rightly) believed that the world didn’t owe them a dime and what little work they could get, that’s what they lived on. Yes, there was intermingling of cultures, but what you see in the black inner-city today is NOT the poor white trash culture of the rural South from yesteryear.

      1. But the violence-prone honor-based, blood feud culture sure as hell was. And it wasn’t until FDR that there was any government handouts to speak of, and they didn’t amount to much until LBJ. You worked or you didn’t eat. And white trash today haven’t changed much from their cousins in the modern UK who didn’t emigrate. They suck the public teat quite well.

  3. The problem here is that Lott and his team are trying to convince people with facts while the gun-banners are working with emotions. Facts don’t matter if emotions are the currency of the voting public. We all know the facts, the statistics, and the constitutional arguments. But once emotions get involved then none of that matters to the general public.

    And Jabrwok, “Hatey McHatemonger” would look great on a t-shirt or hat.

  4. In Lott’s book, “More Guns, Less Crime” you are 8 times as likely to be shot by a LEO than a regular citizen.

  5. Picking nits: I refuse to capitalize the word “black” as it applies to ethnicity. Ditto with white. Any more that I’d capitalize another adjective from one of my favorite movie lines of all time, via one of the Peter Sellers Pink Panther movies: “Cato! You little yellow swine!”

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