California, of course, has no 15-25 year old males who are also members of minority groups.
I have not kept up with California's murders so I could not comment on what the source of the murders in any of California's cities are.
If you are deeply worried about the mindset that resolves problems with murder, you must not be a fan of the last president, whose problem-solving involved the murder of tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of non-combatant Iraqis.
Yep, way to be dishonest. We both know that the deaths of innocent civilians was something US forces have taken great pains (sometimes more successfully than others) to avoid.
Oh, and I do want to compliment you on attempting to pin Alabama's horrific murder rate on black youths.
I wouldn't call the murder rate horrific, but it was definitely concerning enough to me that I kept up with it for about 10 months.
As far as "pinning" Alabama's murder rate on black youths... That's utterly ridiculous. I simply stated that Montgomery's murders were all black youths of a certain age killing each other. And as far as the racial part of it goes... if all of the murders in a city were committed by one race, and all of them committed for the same reason... don't you think that should be addressed?
There was 1 murder in the nearby town of Prattville that year. It was a white on white murder. I don't remember who shot who, but an argument erupted between a father and son. One retrieved a shotgun (I believe) and killed the other. Very sad. Very sad indeed.
Another one in Wetumpka this year ( I've never kept up with Wetupmka, but this one was ALL over the news). One old guy shot another old guy over a shrubbery. I believe they were both white, but I have no proof of that at the moment.
We all know that white youths in your state are all outstanding citizens who wouldn't think of committing any crime that interferes with their watching over their meth labs.
I've never understood how people start doing Meth. I mean, the combination of Rednecks and science should be enough to warn most people off.
Honestly though, we weren't talking about Meth use, or meth labs. We were talking about Murder.
The only statistics I can tell you from experience is that in 2007, the first 57 murders (which took us into October) that occurred in Montgomery Alabama were committed by young black men as the result of an argument.
That is a fact. That's not a racial bias. That's a community mindset problem that needs to be addressed. If we ignore the fact that the murders were being committed by young black men, then we do them a disservice.
