Originally Posted by
Charham
High gun tax, use funds for background checks - fbi type checks like for security clearances. It’s probably the next step for a national database, but I have given up on civil liberties a long time ago. Sorry but angry young males and guns don’t mix unless pointed at enemy combatants.
Actually, I was listening to a real interesting Jordan Peterson podcast where he interviewed a sociologist who did research that crime and murder rate was correlated to income disparity within a community. The interesting thing is that it was not absolute income that mattered, but relative income. The hypothesis of the researcher was that behaviors of young males, who commit most crime, was consciously and unconsciously dictated by status seeking. And that the more income disparity there was, the more those on the lower end of the spectrum resorted to criminal activity towards achieving status.
Also, the researcher noted in that most murders in inner cities, especially in cases where it was one gang member murdering another, it would normally get pleaded down to manslaughter and the person would only be in jail a couple years, at which point they would go back into the community and have high status due street cred.
This pertains more to your garden variety murders that involve gang members and whatnot than it does to psychotic serial killers. But interesting nonetheless.
What it basically all boils down to, is that young males act in ways that they perceive will cause women within their community want to fuck them more. And in some social situations, most notably where there was extreme income disparity and lack of access to social mobility, crime including murder was perceived as a rationale way to achieve this.