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The difference between blacks killing each-other, bad cops, school shooting, reckless driving... Etc. And migrant crime... Is that blacks, cops, school shooters, and reckless drivers aren't multiplying every year.
A horrible risk or costly reality can be priced in if it's predictable and not tied to an expanding variable. You can tolerate all of them for decades or centuries and your bloodline won't die out because of it or atleast this what Americans feel about the matter... Baltimore is a warzone and always will be so just don't go there)
Whereas migrant crime we have THOUSANDS of examples of it never stopping, it only escalating, and continuing to escalate until the host population is fully exterminated or enslaved. These have been called Invasions, Migrations, "Volkswanderung", and every single person on earth, and white people especially have deep social, cultural, spiritual, and probably genetic memories of such apocalyptic wars of genocide occuring about every 80ish years going back through WW2, WW1, Napoleon, the 30 years war, the Turks at vienna, the invasions of the Mongols... Etc. All the way back to Attilla, Caesar's Massacres of the Gauls, Marius' Massacres of the Cimbri, the Fate of the Carthaginians, the Fate of the Melians... All the way back to Troy and before.
If absolutely nothing is ever done about school shootings and it only keeps going on current trends, or even gets more common, maybe over the next hundred years some relative will have been at a school where one happened.
If absolutely nothing is done about Mass Migration or it get's worse... over 100 years it will escalate until your entire race is replaced and exterminated.
If we consider school shooting a white preoccupation (which is dubious using a naive definition but accurate if we mean suicidal spree shooters who actually get attention) these populations are rapidly aging out of peak offending years/into their obsolescence. White people are ancient, even blacks are, iirc, at the upper end of their 30s for their median age.
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Just so.
Though the encroachment of violent, crime-prone minorities like blacks and Mexicans into previously-white areas might serve as a counterpoint. Many of the same problems, and nothing was ever really done, except moving further away. This strategy is also wearing thin.
Something was done, in some places; it goes by the name of "gentrification".
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