The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #63137   Message #1025946
Posted By: GUEST,heric
28-Sep-03 - 05:11 PM
Thread Name: BS: RE-visiting 'Bowling for Columbine'
Subject: RE: BS: RE-visiting 'Bowling for Columbine'
Oh my goodness you can google the question to your heart's content. Look-see, for example (these are victim stats, not perps. But upon further googling, I don't expect I will learn that middle class white male excessive television watchers shot'm all up):

"Young people between the ages of 15 and 24 had the highest firearm death rates in every racial group (rates based on 10 year period 1989-1998). Rates were the highest among Black and Hispanic youth between the ages of 15 and 24 years, then decreased sharply in the older age groups. Rates among Whites increased gradually across the age span, with firearm suicides driving the rates among older white males. Rates for elder San Franciscans could be calculated only for Whites, because there were fewer than 6 deaths per age-group in the other race/ethnic categories.

Whites accounted for 36% of all firearm injury deaths, Blacks accounted for 31%, Hispanics accounted for 11%, and Asians accounted for 22% in 1998. . . . It is important to note that controlling for socioeconomic and other demographic variables often eliminates patterns that manifest in terms of race."

http://www.tf.org/tf/injuries/firea4.shtml