mrstickball on 12 March 2009
| SamuelRSmith said: I don't think race has a big thing to do with it, I'd say it'd have more to do with economical reasons. It stands to reason that a larger percentage of immigrants will be living in less economically-developed areas, and are probably subject to low social-mobality. Of course, there is a lower percentage of second/third/etc... generation immigrants and white people committing crimes simply because there are less of them living in terrible conditions. I'd bet that the majority of white criminals are of a poor social and economical background. In order to tackle crime correctly you need to sort out poor social mobility and have a greater distribution of wealth. |
I would agree that it's more economic than anything else. But I think that helps the argument that the distribution of wealth, and our immigration (allowing so many to come in-country and fill the more menial, bad jobs) is causing the crime in America, rather than guns.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
