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Culture War Roundup for the week of May 25, 2026

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You can slice statistics any way you want, it just depends on what factors you actually care about. The black vs. white disparity is about the same as the male vs. female disparity, but I doubt you'd recommend the alternative scenario where we say that guns and men don't mix well.

  1. You are correct on ratios and just looking at ratios the male female gap is the same.
  2. Absolute levels matter too. 46/1000k black men die by murder per year. Over a roughly 80 year life (simplified) that’s like 3250 black men out of 100k die by murder. 3.25%. Perhaps that is a rare society can deal with. If you do another similar jump in murder rate it would be close to 50% of a group dying by murder. Probably can’t do civilization then.
  3. America wouldn’t exists without white men having guns. America would exists if black men didn’t have gun. The backbone of the US military has always been white men. The backbone of global security is white men.

Though for (3) with infantry not being important anymore I guess in the modern area it would be fine to argue you can have white men in fighting wars and they don’t need gun culture.

FWIW I have no interests ever owning a gun.

The backbone of the US military has always been white men.

Southern white men, actually, in fact, if I'm not mistaken.

You can slice statistics any way you want, it just depends on what factors you actually care about. The black vs. white disparity is about the same as the male vs. female disparity, but I doubt you'd recommend the alternative scenario where we say that guns and men don't mix well.

I think it's interesting to note that there are plenty of neighborhoods in the US where the population is 50% male which feel (and are) very safe. There are very few neighborhoods in the US where the population is 50% black which feel (and are) very safe. So assuming that the male/female and black/non-black crime discrepancies are roughly the same, it seems like these numbers aren't telling the whole story.

Perhaps part of what's going on is that society is comfortable with incarcerating violent offenders even though this greatly disproportionately affects men. If the authorities arrest, prosecute, and imprison 100 people, and 95 of the people are men, there isn't serious outcry over the system being biased.

Actually, I would say that guns and men don't mix well either. FBI says 89% of gun violence offenders are male, where the gender is known.

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2015/crime-in-the-u.s.-2015/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/expanded-homicide

If there was a way to restrict civilian gunownership to all females only, then that would also probably lower black gun violence simultaneously. But we'd probably just have women acting as gun buyers and gun mules for young black men and nothing would change.

I don't know about gun crime specifically, but I've seen analysis that concludes that, according to the FBI, black women commit violent crimes at a rate greater than white men. Which is certainly counterintuitive to me but also doesn't seem completely absurd.

Black women have higher levels of testosterone compared to other women, so it may partly explain the increased violent crime rate. That and the fact that black women are in closer social and familiar proximity to black men may explain the rest.

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