Bloomberg says minorities commit 95% of all murders

[hack89]

Bloomberg claimed that 95 percent of murders fall into a specific category: male, minority and between the ages of 15 and 25. Cities need to get guns out of this group’s hands and keep them alive, he said.

“These kids think they’re going to get killed anyway because all their friends are getting killed,” Bloomberg said. “They just don’t have any long-term focus or anything. It’s a joke to have a gun. It’s a joke to pull a trigger.”

http://www.aspentimes.com/news/14957190-113/michael-bloomberg-calls-colorados-decision-on-legal-pot-stupid

I am speechless at his ignorance.

[whatthehey]

1. In case anyone cares

Using FBI data stripped of "unknowns", 89% are male, 52% black and 43% 14-25. I can't get deep enough into the data to get the intersection of all those sets but it's way way less than 95 of course.

However he has a glimmer of a point in that all of those demographic segments are the largest contributors to homicide totals. But he's nuts, and I suspect guilty of intentional hyperbole, in the numbers.

[Kaleva]

5. If Detroit and Flint had the same homicide rate as the rest of Michigan,...

this state would be about as safe as most any European nation.

[Eleanors38]

6. And still shilling for the WOD.

[whatthehey]

7. Uhh?

I'm not sure you meant to address that to me but I'm perfectly fine with almost all legalization for what it's worth. But even if I were not I am curious are you would draw any inference about that whatsoever from what I posted.

[Eleanors38]

8. "...but he's nuts." And he supports the WOD, too. Thought that was clear enough.

[pbmus]

2. Would have nothing to do and playing with guns all day long have something to do with the 95%

[Eleanors38]

4. If that is a question, it depends on the depth of ones stereotypes.

[Eleanors38]

3. Listen! See! The great black crow descends, streaming moss, magnolia & droppings.

My, but Mr. Bloomberg eructs his gaseous patronization even to the point of death. Haven't heard that shit since the days of Theodore Bilbo.

Well, fellow DUers, you now have a forged steel example of how gun control works, something we've been saying in DU for YEARS.

All clear, now?