SunriseChampion
Senior Member
As someone who is somewhat street involved (I'm not getting into details except to say that I know some unsavoury characters and hear all too much of their even more unsavoury associates/friends/business "partners"), I don't at all mind saying that Max Sterling is somewhat correct, though deffo exaggerating the point with bogus statistics.
I'd also like to point out yet again that the problem isn't systemic racism, the problem is the war on drugs. This sort of "systemic racism" is a symptom of the war on drugs, just like all these shootings are a symptom of the war on drugs, and all these young men from broken and broke homes joining gangs is a symptom of the war on drugs.
You might think I'm oversimplifying the matter, but I'm not. I don't have statistics except the anecdotal kind from personal involvement and experience, but no poor person starts carrying a gun because the state is racist and won't give them a job. They do so because they need it to keep from getting robbed of their hard-earned drugs money/drugs and need it to eliminate competition and to set and maintain the hierarchy of that particular element of society.
I'm not saying all this nonsense would disappear overnight with the legalisation (propertly, not this marijuana joke of an attempt) of psychotropics as their are other dodgy sources of revenue for desperate/sociopathic/psychopathic/mentally unwell/etc people, but none as frigging easy to make money on as drugs are.
Some drugs have a ROI in the thousands of %. This is why even non-desperate people from non-broken homes who are not poor get into it. It's just too easy to make money.
The whole things needs to stop or this endless yammering about systemic racism and gun violence will keep going in the pointless rhetorical circles and nothing will change.
No one gives a shit though, because for one side "drugs are bad mmmkay" and for the other it's any excuse to blame everyone and anyone else for people's personal failings.
I should also like to add that not all gun crimes are a direct/indirect symptom of the war on drugs, but are instead a self-fuelling of gun violence whereby the risk of gun violence actually increases the incidence of gun violence. Just a word from the streets.
I'd also like to point out yet again that the problem isn't systemic racism, the problem is the war on drugs. This sort of "systemic racism" is a symptom of the war on drugs, just like all these shootings are a symptom of the war on drugs, and all these young men from broken and broke homes joining gangs is a symptom of the war on drugs.
You might think I'm oversimplifying the matter, but I'm not. I don't have statistics except the anecdotal kind from personal involvement and experience, but no poor person starts carrying a gun because the state is racist and won't give them a job. They do so because they need it to keep from getting robbed of their hard-earned drugs money/drugs and need it to eliminate competition and to set and maintain the hierarchy of that particular element of society.
I'm not saying all this nonsense would disappear overnight with the legalisation (propertly, not this marijuana joke of an attempt) of psychotropics as their are other dodgy sources of revenue for desperate/sociopathic/psychopathic/mentally unwell/etc people, but none as frigging easy to make money on as drugs are.
Some drugs have a ROI in the thousands of %. This is why even non-desperate people from non-broken homes who are not poor get into it. It's just too easy to make money.
The whole things needs to stop or this endless yammering about systemic racism and gun violence will keep going in the pointless rhetorical circles and nothing will change.
No one gives a shit though, because for one side "drugs are bad mmmkay" and for the other it's any excuse to blame everyone and anyone else for people's personal failings.
I should also like to add that not all gun crimes are a direct/indirect symptom of the war on drugs, but are instead a self-fuelling of gun violence whereby the risk of gun violence actually increases the incidence of gun violence. Just a word from the streets.
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