Draw/post a picture of the people doing most of the shootings.
What can we learn from that?
Most of them would not have shot at anyone if handguns were not so readily available.
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The logical first step is lets study the picture of the person(s) doing the shooting. What can we learn?
So lets look at the person(s) doing most of the shootings. What can we learn? to better address gun safety?
It sounds like you’re trying to say something without saying it. So I’ll parse this for you, and you say, explicitly, whether I’m wrong, okay?
You’re trying to say, “you can tell by looking at people who pulled the trigger and that will tell you that Black people are the criminal element here and that Blackness is the problem, not guns.”
Amirite? That’s your thesis?
That assumes that the only element of a stack of crimes that matters is the last one. That in your world, there are zero accomplices and zero conspirators.
As an engineer, we are taught to “draw a box around” the system we want to study. Whatever happens outside the box is not considered. We are also taught to not be stupid or misleading about where we decide on the box. For example, if you draw the box around the electric car and claim it is “zero emissions!” you are not telling the truth. You need to include all the actual factors. If you draw a box around Yendegaia, Chile, and claim “no climate change!” you are not telling the truth. You need to include the entire climate.
Likewise, if you draw a box around criminal trigger-pullers and claim, “no gun problem!” you are not telling the truth. (You *are* telling on yourself, however). You need to include the chain of gun access. There are criminals all along the way, and there are a huge number of deaths at the hands of trigger-pullers who are not criminals.
Let’s start with the accessories and conspirators, shall we? Let’s look at a picture of the first person in line that turns a gun from legal to illegal. You’ll find that race is a factor, but it’s a different race than you thought. The correct conclusion here, IMHO is that race is not a factor after all, on the proper-sized box. It’s lack of accountability in gun ownership. Manufacturers allowing straw purchases, just like the drug companies did. Dealers allowing straw purchases, just like the pharmacies did. We need gun control laws enacted and enforced to stop these crimes that result in murders.
A lie-by-exclusion will be noticed and called out.
If you want to say, “it’s not the guns, it’s the people,” then you need to include the people who manufacture and market guns irresponsibly, the people who distribute of guns unlawfully, the people who sell guns unlawfully, the people who store guns irresponsibly, AND the people who fire guns unlawfully or irresponsibly.
If you’re failing to include all of those “people” in your scope of people, then you’re telling on yourself.