Repeatedly in the press, we see “it’s the guns, it’s the guns, it’s the guns” as the explanation for homicide in the United States, but this rhetoric only serves to obscure the actual homicide problem. I don’t believe Black Americans are more inherently violent than any other group of Americans, but I do believe the country at large, particularly its white liberal faction, needs to come to grips with what’s going on in the Black community before anything can be fixed. As we go through this deep dive, we’ll discover the mathematical key to solving the murder problem in the United States lies not in gun control, nor even in socio-economics, but rather in repairing the family unit across all demographics.
We’re going to begin with mathematics, and attempt to replicate this entirely unsourced graph seen on Twitter recently:
(Spoiler: It’s sorta right, sorta not.)
MATH
We begin by picking a year. I’m going to pick 2019 for
