MaverickNH
NES Member
Bearing Arms told the story about this study, which looks at youth firearms homicides related to the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) vs the Gifford’s State Rating (A/B/C/D/F). The SVI incorporates socioeconomic, household characteristics, race and ethnic minority status, housing type and transportation of the place where the youth was killed. A high SVI rating would be poor, single parent, Black/Brown kids in public housing blocks - you get the picture.
SVI accounts for a ~10-fold range in odds of firearms homicides in both Giffords A&B states as well as Giffords D&F states. It’s not the "lax" or "strict" gun laws that matter in being shot dead, it’s everything else - poor urban slums where Black kids have no Daddy at home.
But we knew that… Shithole cities are, by definition, shit holes to live and die in.
Study: Gun laws alone won't end violence
The study says gun laws alone won't cut it, but our question is whether the other options would cut it all by themselves without gun laws at all.
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