Cool chart showing the changing US murder rate over time

[Indy Texas]

I don't buy people who blame our crime rates on demographics or mental health.

(1) Mental health issues are not something unique to Americans. As Barack Obama once said, "The United States does not have a monopoly on crazy people."

(2) European countries haven't been perfectly homogenous Buchananite fantasy lands for years. All Western European countries have sizable immigrant populations from Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Asia. And their immigrant groups are in many cases just as marginalized and discriminated against as blacks have been in America (with the added issue of differences in language and religion).

It's also somewhat troubling that people who follow this line of thought are content to simply say, "Oh well, it's just those black and brown people," rather than be willing to make the effort and investment necessary to correct those systemic problems. They act as if non-white people are inherently incorrigible and the only logical thing to do is for white people to shut themselves up in gated communities and shoot first, ask questions later.