The one thing you forgot to add is the absent father syndrome which has huge implications and affects the children of the fractured family system. [More]
You're right about that being a major factor but I did not forget about it -- I deliberately limited myself to rebutting those factors Rev. Lynch introduced, albeit I generally gave it a nod in the statement:
The truth about urban violence is it’s not about guns (or the made-up political term “gun violence”), but about the inevitable fruits of “progressive” fraud that keeps charlatans in power through an endless cycle of dependency and manipulation. Yes, race is a factor—not as a cause of violent crime, but as an indicator of populations most influenced and ultimately victimized by a continuing history of destructive collectivist controls over the economy, over education, and over the lives of those who never escape the trap of a corrupt system.
Those policies include generational government subsidies that guarantee more of the same. I have addressed this directly on numerous occasions though. One that comes to mind was in a friendly reminder I wrote several years back to a colleague who maintained Seattle and pre-"shall issue" Milwaukee had "roughly the same social makeup," and therefore the "big difference" between their homicide rates was due to concealed carry:
Sorry ... but the cities do not share "roughly the same...social makeup." Just look at the comparison between "female householders, no husband present" (8.09% vs. 21.07%).
Disregarding the leftist riot nonsense and looking at both cities today with what's happening in Milwaukee, it's pretty obvious that what you say is the elephant in the room that too may on "both sides" won't address for reasons that also seem pretty obvious.
My caveat here is that we'll need to wait for new census figures to come in to establish authoritative current rates -- unless someone can point to reliable local data.
