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[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

LL, are you trying to say: the people who live in the ghetto are us;
we are all in this together; and therefore, the matter that the rate of gun murders
is ten times higher than it is in non-ghetto neighborhoods is entirely irrelevant.

~ or if that is not the point, please make your point ~

Of course we don’t all live in the “ghetto”… and the states identified
in my correlation of data on “gun murders” vs “population density”
are not 100% “ghetto” everywhere in the state.
That should be obvious from my facetious question in a subsequent post.
Likewise obviously, higher rates of “gun murders” among Black youth are not irrelevant.

At issue is your prefacing statement about “manipulating statistics
for one’s own use” - followed by your use of the term “ghetto”.
Separating out "gun murders” along with the attribution:
“None [no states] in permanent ghetto underclass country
where the gun murders take place.” is an example of exactly that.
Taken together, they convey an image that “gun murders”
are what occur in a “ghetto”, and “gun deaths” are what occur elsewhere.

Why your need to even use the term “ghetto” ?
Gun murders also occur elsewhere, and gun deaths, gun injuries,
and gun intimidations occur throughout our cities and states.
This has been one of my points in subsequent postings.

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