Re: Weird...
... not nearly as easy as you seem to think to get a handgun.
Seems not.
... white people are more likely to be shot by the police than blacks ...
Well ...
Not according to The Washington Post in their (ongoing) seven year statistic (updated 21/11/2022):
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Black Americans are killed at a much higher rate than White Americans
Although half of the people shot and killed by police are White, Black Americans are shot at a disproportionate rate. They account for less than 13 percent of the U.S. population, but are killed by police at more than twice the rate of White Americans. Hispanic Americans are also killed by police at a disproportionate rate.
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ie:
- Black: 42 per million
- Hispanic: 30 per million
- White: 17 per million
- Other: 5 per million
As you will surely gather, White victims of police violence have been 17 per million while the rest ie: those not considered White by the police or the Washington Post, have been 77 per million.
The victims are overwhelmingly young and male (>95%) and the shootings happen all across the US.
That's over 4.5 times as many.
Granted, the study is not making any distinction between Black or White police officers, but I doubt it is relevant in any way.
Truly, a very sad state of affairs.
O.