ANALYSIS – Related to my recent piece on a liberal think tank recommending a renewed focus on criminals and the mentally ill, rather than on guns, to combat the surge in ‘gun violence’ in the nation’s capital, a new study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published Tuesday shows black-on black homicides surged nationally during 2020.
That was of course the same year that Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests, and violent riots rocked major cities across the United States, especially during the 2020 BLM ‘Summer of Love.’ The focus of this massive civil unrest being to bash law enforcement and pressure, often successfully, to ‘defund the police.’
This rate of homicides involving firearms in 2020 is the highest level in 26 years.
However, in contrast to that far-left anti-police narrative, the new report makes for sobering reading. Cops aren’t the ones disproportionately killing blacks in America, but rather, it is other blacks.
The data showed blacks are at least four times more likely to be killed by a gun than the overall population, and 12 times more likely than a white person. And let’s be clear, these guns used to kill mostly young blacks are predominantly wielded by other blacks, not police or people of other races.
While increased ‘gun violence’ is often linked by the Left, without much evidence, to the coronavirus pandemic, which reached the United States in January 2020, the impact of COVID did not really have a pronounced effect until the latter part of the year.
Meanwhile, the CDC assessment shows a distinct point. The ‘gun violence’ spike in 2020 was far more pronounced in the black community.
Overall, the firearm homicide rate, measured per 100,000 people, rose from 4.6 in 2019 to 6.1 in 2020 – a leap of 34.6%. The actual numbers are 14,392 homicides in 2019, and 19,350 in 2020.
However, dramatically, among black Americans, the rate was 26.6 deaths per 100,000 – a 39.5% increase over 2019. Meanwhile, for white Americans, the rate was only 2.2 per 100,000 – still a rise of 28.4% on the previous year, but statistically far less noteworthy.
While, in typical liberal manner, and using the latest leftist buzz words, the CDC report tried to spin the disturbing data by blaming the surge in Black-on-Black murder on “systemic inequities and structural racism,” they can’t hide that race has played a distinct role, as other minorities were also found to have higher rates of gun deaths.
This is just more proof that guns don’t kill people, criminals and mentally ill people with guns do. And sadly, far too many of the murderers, and the victims, are minorities, especially young blacks.
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WHY IS IT THAT THE MEDIA DOESN’T BLOW UP THEIR PLATFORM ABOUT ALL THE BLACK ON BLACK KILLINGS, ESPECIALLY CHICAGO. IF A WHITE PERSON KILLS A BLACK…GOD HELP US…BUT WHY ISN’T THIS ASIMPORTANT OR MORE IMPORTANT AMPONG BLACK NEWS. THEY TREAT BLACK OB=N BLACK KILLING LIKE LIGHTFOOT DOES…JUST ANOTHER SUNNY DAY IN CHICAGO. IT SHOWS THE WORLD THAT PLACK LIVES ARE NOT IMPORTANT AND THAT IS SICK! SO MANY OF THE HUMAN BEINGS ARE INNOCENT. HAVE DONE NOT ONE DAMN THING TO BE KILLED. LIGHTFOOT AND HER LIKES SHOULD EBFIRED AND GOTTEN RID OF. THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR DOING ZERO TO HELP THEIR PEOLE.
“The actual numbers are 14,392 homicides in 2019, and 19,350 in 2020.”
That can’t be right. According to the Anti-Defamation League there are no murders committed by Antifa and just a few by any leftist extremists in the last 15 years, didn’t you know? Of course, I am just kidding. Not about what the ADL says, but about what is true. The ADL ‘study’ is so selective and so full of holes and inconsistencies that it can only be explained as an act of intentional fiction. A piece of propaganda to fit a predetermined narrative.
So sad on such a serious and consequential subject.
Say it isn’t so!
But who do the democrats want to disarm,legality owned firearms of white people. Disarm us and the rest will kill us wholesale. Leftist is a mental decease.
Not surprising, considering the fact that the FBI has reported that blacks, 13% of the population, are responsible for 50% of the homicides and over 50% of the robberies.
LISTEN UP….BLM and ANTIFA Could SET a BETTER EXAMPLE for PEOPLE to FOLLOW. TOO BAD THEY have STRAYED Too FAR from the RIGHTEOUS PATH. GIVE GOD a CHANCE. From SamuraiQueen. 😄😄😄😇😇😇🤔🤔🤔
Cities still in ruin since 2020
Awwwww…..
Sobering truth, a shame no one will learn from the realities. Does anyone ever explain what is meant by “systemic inequities and structural racism” and how that specifically is causation? I guess they mean progressive policies coupled with charges of racism of anyone who wants to do something different (tough crime laws, strong policing, better schools, basically conservative principles) by the left which scares (brainwashes) blacks into voting for the same idiots who systematically support and cause their problems, a vicious spiral of cause and effect that will only end when they stop supporting the Democrat assholes who live off this fear.
The blacks are a violent bunch. The white liberal progressive left keeps saying that whites are violent and everything in the US is based on white violence. Facts make that totally silly. Blacks are violent, they are responsible for the vast majority of crimes in the US.