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Originally Posted by Patriam1066
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White rednecks are not violent. White America has the homicide rate of Belgium. I'm sorry that that offends you. I really am.
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That's a really interesting point and I was surprised when I first looked into the data and found that the non-hispanic white gun homicide rate in the US matches what we see in most of northern europe, and not too much higher than parts of europe where guns are heavily restricted (UK, France). Our higher overall gun homicide rate is heavily impacted by blacks and hispanics, but even those groups in the US have homicide rates near the average for the countries from which they come. It indicates that perhaps the US is not some crazy land where guns grow on trees and everyone is shooting each other at the drop of a hat.
Of course, this kind of data is utterly maddening to liberals, since it combines a temperance of anti-gun hysteria with very noticeable differences in outcome based on race, so it's difficult to discuss this topic with them. Still, if one wishes to seek truth, we cannot ignore what are perhaps uncomfortable data. I'm becoming more and more convinced that social and cultural norms are intertwined with biology, and that we see similar levels of violence in genetically similar people who live in different societies because one's beliefs are shaped in innumerable and subtle ways by their genetics.