2nd Amendment: Shooter and Victim Data/Race by Hunter Yockey https://padlet.com/hunteryockey/whklethwcrv4j8zq en-us 2023-04-18 12:07:57 UTC 2023-04-26 02:54:46 UTC hello@padlet.com #AsianAmericans#California#Asiansbuyingmoreguns hunteryockey https://padlet.com/hunteryockey/whklethwcrv4j8zq/wish/2558510193 "Two shootings that authorities say were carried out by elderly Asian men follow a spike in Asian Americans buying guns during the COVID-19 pandemic."

"This past Saturday night in Monterey Park, a predominantly Asian American city in California, the first Lunar New Year celebration since the pandemic began was kicking off when a gunman entered a ballroom dance hall and opened fire, killing 11 and injuring several more."

"The shootings come after gun ownership soared during the pandemic, with firearm sales to Asian Americans rising by an estimated 43 percent in the first half of 2020, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation.  Although data on firearm use among Asian Americans is limited, they have had low gun ownership rates historically, The Guardian reported last year."

"But Asian Americans who experienced increased acts of racism at the start of the pandemic were more likely to buy firearms and ammunition for self-defense, a study by researchers at the University of Michigan and Eastern Michigan University (EMU) found last year."










]]> 2023-04-18 12:26:56 UTC https://padlet.com/hunteryockey/whklethwcrv4j8zq/wish/2558510193 #Racialbreakdown#Blackchildrenhithard#Numberofdeaths hunteryockey https://padlet.com/hunteryockey/whklethwcrv4j8zq/wish/2560097413 "Since 2019, gun violence has become the leading cause of death among Americans under age 18, surpassing car accidents. A closer look at the numbers reveals even more alarming trends, especially among young African Americans."

"And even more remarkable than the jump in gun deaths was the racial breakdown. In the 2021 data, the Pew Research Center found that Black children were hit much harder than other young people."

"Among African American children, the rate of gun deaths per 100,000 people was 11.8. That was more than five times the figure for other racial and ethnic groups. For white children and Hispanics, the figure was 2.3 per 100,000, and for Asian children, it was even lower, at 0.9."

"The difference in the 2021 numbers suggests a very different problem and challenge among Black children, which is confirmed when look at what drove gun deaths by race."







]]> 2023-04-19 12:23:09 UTC https://padlet.com/hunteryockey/whklethwcrv4j8zq/wish/2560097413 #Jewishpeople#HateagainstJewishpeople#manshootsjewbecauseofhatred hunteryockey https://padlet.com/hunteryockey/whklethwcrv4j8zq/wish/2566549652 "Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, in a news conference Sunday, delivered a step-by-step recounting of the attack that police say came from a man armed with an assault-style weapon who wrote a manifesto of hate against Jewish people. One of Goldstein’s fingers was shot off in the assault, and another was badly injured."

“‘We are a Jewish nation that will stand tall! We will not let anyone or anything take us down! Terrorism like this will not take us down!' he said he told his congregants.
'We just came from Passover at the Seder table; we sang a song ... that God has protected us, that in every generation they rise up against us. But God will protect us,' he said."

“'The message needs to be brought out to the public: How does a 19-year-old, a teenager, have the audacity, the sickness, the hatred, to publicize such anti-Semitism in his manifesto? How does he come here to a house of worship and do what he did?' the rabbi said."
]]> 2023-04-25 02:28:20 UTC https://padlet.com/hunteryockey/whklethwcrv4j8zq/wish/2566549652 #announcementofshooterrace#Blackmenbrutality#Deeperthanrace hunteryockey https://padlet.com/hunteryockey/whklethwcrv4j8zq/wish/2566557128 "Maher began the panel discussion Friday night by recapping the "rage" that has unfolded in the past weeks between the mass shootings in Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay, the release of bodycam footage of the attack on Paul Pelosi as well as the growing police brutality case out of Memphis.  He noted that two older Asian men were responsible for the California massacres while five Black police officers were responsible for Nichols' death."

"'We go through this ritual when we wait for them to announce the race of the shooter… because somehow to a lot of people that's the most important thing,' Maher said. 'And I just thought it was very interesting that this week, Asians were killed by Asians — two Asian men who are, you know, 66 and 72. And then this week, we just got this video of the Memphis Five, a Black man is brutally beaten in Memphis by five cops. They're all Black."'

"'We hear about a horrible incident and we wait to see the race or identity of the perpetrator and the race and identity of the victim and we know exactly how it will play based on that, but to the family of the person that's murdered, does it matter?' Weiss asked. 'I don't really think it does."'




]]> 2023-04-25 02:34:48 UTC https://padlet.com/hunteryockey/whklethwcrv4j8zq/wish/2566557128 #Racialbiasinpoliceshootings#Harvardprofessorstudy#Policesaynoracialdiscrimination hunteryockey https://padlet.com/hunteryockey/whklethwcrv4j8zq/wish/2566569561 "A study by a Harvard professor released this month found no evidence of racial bias in police shootings even though officers were more likely to interact physically with non-whites than whites."

"The paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research, which examined thousands of incidents at 10 large police departments in California, Florida and Texas, concluded that police were no more likely to shoot non-whites than whites after factoring in extenuating circumstances."

"Mr. Fryer, who is black, told The New York Times that the finding of no racial discrimination in police shootings was “the most surprising result of my career.”
At the same time, the study found blacks and Hispanics were more than 50 percent more likely to experience physical interactions with police, including touching, pushing, handcuffing, drawing a weapon, and using a baton or pepper spray."
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