r/MurderedByWords • u/james_dykeson • Aug 05 '19

Murder Murdered by numbers?

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u/RawbGun Aug 05 '19

That's pretty yikes

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u/Indercarnive Aug 05 '19

The rest of Europe is similar. The USA has a murder problem.

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u/TemiOO Aug 05 '19

Big ghetto problem (poverty trap) + a rising white supremacy movement + a president who supports hatred towards anyone who is different to himself + being able to buy an assault rifle with almost no trouble in the vast majority of states = a murder problem

Obviously not as simple as that but yeah

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u/tempusfudgeit Aug 05 '19

52.5% of murders are committed by black people who make up 12.3% of the population, but yes, the murder problem in the US is all due to trump and white supremacists.

Too lazy to look it up but I'm guessing assault rifles are used in 1-2% of murders