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> those numbers show a very inconvenient truth

Could you be plain about the point you’re making here?

It sounds like they're talking about the socioeconomic factors behind the violence. I believe there's a book called American Homicide that covers them in detail.

The extremely basic overly simplified summary I have is that people who don't have hope or think they've been cheated have less incentive to work within the broken system.

https://news.northeastern.edu/2020/01/06/can-gun-violence-be...

Very charitable that "socioeconomic" would be their choice of taboo conversations.

Not necessarily. Some people misinterpret socioeconomic to be someone being covertly racist, sexist, classist, etc. Statistically, specific groups are responsible for a majority of the violence (an obvious one is males). Some groups are disproportionately affected by the underlying socioeconomic issues.

It's reasonable that some people don't want to talk about these issues since it makes them an easy target to be misunderstood and called a bigot.

Their point seems to be that everyone knows their point and no one can say it.

Or that there's no point saying it because addressing it would require unpopular trade-offs. Like extending the welfare state or tightening gun control. Not even worth debating. Nobody likes to be told that they can't both have their cake and eat it too.

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