Numbers

In 2018 (the latest year where complete stats are available), there were 14,123 homicides in the United States. More than 52.4% of the victims were black. Just over 43.1% of the victims were white.

The murder weapons broke down like this: 46.2% of the homicides were carried out by handguns, and just over 2.1% were carried out by rifles.

The killers broke down like this: 48.3% of homicides were committed by blacks, 45.8% by whites, 5.9% were either unknown, mixed race, or other.

What about gender? When whites were the killer, men were the killer two thirds of the time. When blacks were the killer, men were responsible 76% of the time.

In cases where the victim was black, 88.8% of the time, the killer was also black. In cases where the victim was white, 80.7% of the time, the killer was also white.

There are 246 million whites in the United States. With 5,574 homicides where a white person was the victim of another white person, the murder rate among whites is 2.26 per 100,000. There are 40.6 million blacks in the United States. With 7,407, the murder rate where only blacks was involved is 14.72 per 100,000.

Conclusions: interracial killings are the exception. Blacks commit the majority of homicides in this country. They are also the victim in the majority of homicides. The homicide rate among blacks in the United States is close to the median for Africa, although half what the murder rate is for South Africa.

The homicide rate for white Americans is roughly double the murder rate for Europe, but on par with Canada.

This means that BLM is protesting the wrong killings. For every black killed by police, several hundred die at the hands of other blacks.

It isn’t handguns. Blacks kill more people than do handguns. It isn’t “assault weapons”- more people die each year from knives wielded by black men than are killed by these so-called “weapons of war.”

The numbers don’t lie. There is a cultural problem in this country, and it has to do with black males. Let’s start the “Reasoned discourse” there.