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Originally Posted by Todd
How do you mean "based on fear"?
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"You ride them everyday, but in an instant an escalator can mangle you or a loved one. 7 on Your Side reveals why you may be riding a stairway to danger."
Whatever Moore may have exaggerated, the media and the government in America really is based on keeping people afraid. And since 9/11 it's just gotten worse.
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Originally Posted by Todd
Every moment on this planet, including this one of course, thousands of real people are really being cruelly raped, robbed, tortured, murdered, slaughtered, or somehow victimized grotesquely. But not those who are carrying guns.
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If people with guns aren't victims of crimes then America should be one of the safest places on the planet. The fact is, though, that people with guns are in just as much danger as anybody else. More people with guns end up shooting themselves rather than somebody trying to attack them.
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"Twenty-five percent of young black men possess criminal records, according to government studies, either in jail, on parole or on probation. For the most part, murder victims are killed by a member of their same race. But, although blacks comprise only 12 percent of the population, economist and columnist Walter Williams writes, 'According to U.S. Department of Justice statistics, blacks commit 54 percent of murders, 42 percent of forcible rapes, 59 percent of robberies and 38 percent of aggravated assaults. ... In the case of interracial violent crime, blacks are 50 times more likely to commit violent crimes against whites than whites against blacks.'"
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So what's that supposed to prove? Are you saying this somehow justifies racisim? Yes, blacks commit more crimes than whites. Blacks are also on average a good deal poorer than whites. It has nothing to do with race. It has to do with money. If you saw a black guy in a nice business suit it's unlikely you'd be afraid of him. If you saw a white guy dressed like a gangster you'd probably be just as cautious around him as if he were black.
The reason we have such a problem with crime is because of this prevelant Hobbesian paranoia that tells us everybody is out to get us and life is "nasty, brutish, and short." In reality, there's a lot less to be scared of out there than most people think. It's not like there's a horde of black barbarians waiting in the ghetto to shoot the first white guy they happen across.
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