Yahoo 'news' regurgitates BBC propaganda

Yahoo reposted a BBC story on gun crime in the US.  It purports to show the problem is about guns using charts. 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mass-shootings-america-challenge-gun-131544098.html

I've responded, as though my post will be posted or read.

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America's challenge explained in charts?

First, you show suicide as over half the 'firearm' deaths. Suicide is quite independent of firearms., Japan has a higher suicide rate, almost no guns in civilian hands. Societies adapt the means as necessary.  So much for half of our challenge WRT firearms.

Second, our problem is not what is being used in violent crime, but who is committing it. To 'explain, in charts', look at this report by NYPD and note the disparity of perpetrators by race.

https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/stats/reports-analysis/homicide.page

Then compare with the city demographics.

https://datausa.io/profile/geo/new-york-ny#demographics

Just as forcing untested COVID treatments on low risk, healthy individuals made no sense, in fact put them at higher risk from the 'cure', disarming the bulk of a population when a minority has a disproportionate, high proclivity for being a perpetrator is counterproductive.   And that is to say nothing of being entirely unconstitutional.  Homicide rates for whites, for example, in the US, are between that of France and Finland.  Unremarkable.  Targeted solutions need to be implemented, not the abandonment of our constitution. 

And, finally, there is another component of the population with a higher proclivity towards homicide and suicide - those using medications, especially SSRI types of drugs.  https://ssristories.org/  The pharma industry needs to answer for this and better treatment solutions found.

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Neither BBC nor American MSM would EVER show this chart - however useful it may be to illustrate the nature of our violent crime problem.

Here's an insightful perspective ... https://youtu.be/OyJ34KsxXoc