School Shooting in South Florida

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numberwang said:

SpokenTruth said:

1. Tell us again the political alignment of the majority of mass shooters?

2. If the Republicans would help the Democrats get the poor and socially under-served out of poverty, you'd have fewer murders in Democratic districts.  Instead, R's do everything they can to keep the poor poor because the resultant crime is a profitable enterprise and the poor can't exert social influence over the dominant white power structure.

1. Not Republican? The majority of murders in the US happen in heavy left/Democratic city districts (mostly gang related crimes).

2. Poverty is not a justification for murders, neither empirically nor theoretically. Guns cost money, people who are genuinely poor have no means to buy them.

They can buy them off the street:

https://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/For-teens-illegal-guns-easy-to-get-on-streets-1283875.php

 

And even if guns are expensive, if you live in a poor neighbourhood when you're at risk of getting robbed you're going to need a way to defend yourself, so it makes sense that poorer places have higher violent crime rates. The more desperate you are the more risks you're willing to take.