Are gun owners mentally ill?
Some anti-gun people think owning a gun is a sign of some kind of mental abnormality. According to General Social Survey data, gun owners ...
Some anti-gun people think owning a gun is a sign of some kind of mental abnormality. According to General Social Survey data, gun owners ...
I don't know if they kept working from the 1960s. Conviction rates started increasing in the 80s (I think fairly early on).
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of minority complaints, one of the ones which has gotten a lot of attention recently is the crack vs powder sentencing disparity (which I've yet to hear anyone defend). But the whole reason the government went crazy about crack was in response to demands from the Congressional Black Caucus after some basketball player died.
Different drugs seem to affect different populations in different ways. For instance, American Indians are susceptible to alcoholism.
ReplyDeleteBy the same token, blacks seem to be more susceptible to the effects of cocaine than are whites. It's been suggested that the big decline in crime rates in American cities starting in the mid-nineties was due to the crack epidemic "culling the herd" of criminally inclined people.
It has taken me a long time to come to terms with the extent to which the elites are our enemies.
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ReplyDeleteDifferent drugs seem to affect different populations in different ways. For instance, American Indians are susceptible to alcoholism.
This is true of any population that has not had several thousand years of exposure to agriculture. Australian Aborigines are the same, and I would imagine the Inuit are, and so forth.
On a different topic, I think that the Inductivist's claims that the Elites see this in moral terms reflects a faulty understanding and poor analysis.
They employ moralistic reasoning in order to manipulate the herd, but it is clear that they understand what they are doing and do not think of these things in moral terms.