Perhaps you are familiar with the FBI's Uniform Crime Report. This is what it says about hate crime incidents in 2010:
Racial bias
Among the single-bias hate crime incidents in 2010, there were 3,949 victims of racially
motivated hate crime. A closer examination of these victim data showed that:
• 70.0 percent were victims of an offender’s anti-black bias.
• 17.7 percent were victims of an anti-white bias.
• 5.1 percent were victims of an anti-Asian/Pacific Islander bias.
• 1.2 percent were victims of an anti-American Indian/Alaskan Native bias.
According to the same report:
Crimes against persons
Law enforcement reported 4,824 hate crime offenses as crimes against persons. By
offense type:
• 46.2 percent were intimidation.
• 34.8 percent were simple assault.
• 18.4 percent were aggravated assault.
• 0.2 percent consisted of 7 murder and nonnegligent manslaughters and 4 forcible
rapes.
• 0.3 percent involved the offense category other, which is collected only in the
National Incident-Based Reporting System.
If you'll scroll up to my original comment in this thread, you'll see that white privilege -- not guns specifically -- was my original point. It's pretty clear from the DOJ/FBI statistics that there are far more victims of anti-black bias than victims of anti-white bias. That's a privilege we white folks share.
ETA (you're welcome):
Edit history
Recommendations
0 members have recommended this reply (displayed in chronological order):
= new reply since forum marked as read