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It could be education too ... The_Muted_Grimaud Send a noteboard - 30/12/2010 09:52:49 PM
If you only look at murders perpetrated by white people it is 7%. There were 412 murders in 2009 so that would make murders by white people 29 assuming the average holds. There are a million white people in Norway so thier rate is still lower but the numbers are small enough to be comparable. It does undermine the argument that America’s murder rate is a gun control issue. White people in NYC have access to guns but the have comparable murder rates gun free Norway. The real problem is the drug trade in minority urban areas.


When I worked in Jersey City, I worked with a lot of kids from the 'projects' or the poor side of town. One girl told me about her graduating class at James J Ferris HS, she said 220 out of 500 kids graduated. I think my eyes popped out, 'cause then she said . "hey, my high school ain't bad. You could do well there if you worked at it, I took all AP classes and shit. You wanna talk bad, look at Henry Schnyder [high school], you can't say shit good about Schnyder.'

I'm sitting there thinking, 'your class failed to graduate some 280 kids and it's not the worst in Jersey City?' It kind of blows my mind that a high school can't even graduate half its kids. I realize a lot of kids get messed up with gangs or drugs, or just have broken homes that they're coming from, but I feel like 45% graduation rate is missing even a low standard.
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31 people murdered in Norway this year. Do you know what this means? jh - 28/12/2010 12:36:45 PM 674 Views
Re: 31 people murdered in Norway this year. Do you know what this means? Camilla - 28/12/2010 01:21:31 PM 458 Views
That reminds me: Joel - 28/12/2010 02:55:35 PM 422 Views
Re: That reminds me: Camilla - 28/12/2010 03:55:16 PM 412 Views
I see.... Joel - 28/12/2010 10:13:38 PM 479 Views
Where there's a will; there's a way: It's ONLY 28 December.... Joel - 28/12/2010 02:54:08 PM 427 Views
The average American prefers guns when killing. As Joel is hardly average, carry on. *NM* Macharius - 28/12/2010 05:20:37 PM 163 Views
Well, he is from Texas. I saw this documentary from there once. *NM* jh - 29/12/2010 12:18:27 AM 158 Views
They keep remaking that documentary. *NM* MightyYT - 29/12/2010 01:20:59 AM 165 Views
just f**ing Hollywood and their anti-Texas fetish random thoughts - 29/12/2010 05:04:10 AM 391 Views
That's insane ... I found the interactive murder map for NYC The_Muted_Grimaud - 29/12/2010 05:42:47 AM 508 Views
interesting map random thoughts - 29/12/2010 03:17:31 PM 366 Views
8% of 3780 is 302 not 40 - but yes, very disproportionate. *NM* PhotoJim - 30/12/2010 11:36:31 AM 223 Views
302 total over 7 years, for an average of 43 per year: a 43% increase over Norway. *NM* Macharius - 30/12/2010 01:57:35 PM 144 Views
You can drive the numbers even lower than that random thoughts - 30/12/2010 03:15:54 PM 378 Views
Re: You can drive the numbers even lower than that Macharius - 30/12/2010 04:03:35 PM 354 Views
It could be education too ... The_Muted_Grimaud - 30/12/2010 09:52:49 PM 459 Views
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