[lbo-talk] A view from the left on gun control

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Without being flip, the weight of the evidence, although it is conflicting, is that whilepoverty and inequality are correlated strongly with property crime, they are not corrected strongly with violent crime. The poor steal at higher rates than the better off, but don't appear to rob and kill at higher rates. This is not a highly robust conclusion, but it is the majority criminological view. There are other good reasons to oppose poverty, inequality, and alienation.

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On Dec 27, 2012, at 8:22 AM, "Jordan Hayes" <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com> wrote:


> Marv, sleep deprived, yells:
> 
>> IT IS NOT ONLY OR EVEN PRIMARILY GUNS, BUT CAPITALIST
>> INEQUALITY, POVERTY, AND ALIENATION WHICH ARE ULTIMATELY
>> RESPONSIBLE FOR CRIME AND VIOLENCE; THE UBIQUITY OF GUNS
>> COMPOUNDS THE PROBLEM.
> 
> Whatever, dude.
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