@cicerone imposter,
I think they are missing the obvious point that, since the whites are in the majority (at least for the moment), that most of the crime in this country is being committed by whites.
You also can't infer much from these black vs white statistics. because they aren't saying anything about race, as any sort of causative factor, they also reflect socioeconomic differences--there are considerable differences in income level between these groups.
BillRM promotes these kind of statistics mainly to point out how
dangerous black men are. Why do you think he keeps mentioning his fears of blacks rioting? He's convinced himself that all those people who participated in extremely peaceful protests calling for Zimmerman's arrest were threatening to riot. "No justice, no peace," means peaceful protests and marches, perfectly valid expressions of free speech and the right to assembly, would continue until their concerns were addressed. But any expression of civic power threatens BillRM when it comes from blacks--he just knows they are so uncivilized and violent and dangerous they will run riot, amok in the streets, and invade his home,
and that's why he needs his guns. Hyping fears of blacks is a main tactic of the gun lobby and the NRA--it helps to cement their base and boost gun sales.
And blacks want tighter gun control to help keep guns out of inner city neighborhoods, to help lower those high gun-related homicide numbers in those areas. Municipalities can't control the problem as long as shadow purchasers can easily buy guns outside of the cities and then bring them in for resale. Stronger controls to prevent shadow purchases, and stiffer penalties for dealers who knowingly sell to them, are needed to help keep guns off the big city streets.
But, while BillRM keeps pointing out the problem in the cities, he vehemently opposes any gun controls that will address it. As long as those blacks keep killing blacks, he doesn't care. He thinks it not his problem as a white guy--besides, all those black homicide and crime numbers he feels are good for white gun sales. and, in his mind, helps to justify his need for a gun.
Meanwhile, Trayvon Martin didn't live in a ghetto, and he wasn't killed in one. And he didn't get killed because of any gang-related, drug-related, or criminal activity, and he wasn't a fatherless high school drop-out floating around the streets looking to get into trouble. He wound up being the victim of a needless and avoidable homicide, in a middle-class, predominantly white, private gated community, where he was a guest, because someone, with attitudes similar to BillRMs, looked at him and saw him as an intruder in that predominantly white enclave, and erroneously racially profiled him as being "up to no good." And that set off the events that led to his needless and avoidable and tragic death.
And BillRM will keep hauling out these black homicide statistics to try to distract from the fact that Trayvon Martin became one of those statistics only because of the attitudes in George Zimmerman's head, and his lack of good judgment and impulse control. Trayvon Martin only wanted to get home in time to watch a basketball game on TV, and then George Zimmerman began stalking him...and BillRM can't deal with that. It doesn't fit his fantasies of all those young black men as violent aggressors.
So, expect him to keep up this digression as long as he can.