Finally, a news reporter asks a King Solomon question!
The Chicago Tribune Editorial titled: Forget the homicide rankings, bring on the solutions, contained the following statement.
“Nor do the raw numbers tell us much about the causes of our gun violence epidemic and what can be the cures.
Why, for example, did homicides rise in 2020 while most other crimes declined? The pandemic? Illegal guns? Lax prosecutors?”
The Purpose of This Post
Is to relate an ancient proverb, an idiom, and my accolades to the Chicago Tribune for “winnowing” the report as wise King Solomon advised 3000 years ago.
King Solomon
A wise king winnows out the wicked; he drives the threshing wheel over them. 21Disaster pursues sinners, but prosperity is the reward of the righteous.… (Proverb 20:26-27)
Idiom – What you don’t know won’t hurt you
What you don’t know won’t hurt you What you do not know will not worry or harm you. The expression is most often used, to justify not giving information to someone to avoid potential damage if it subsequently becomes known that he/she was in possession of the full facts before a particular course was followed. (google)
What’s My Point?
If we discern the editorial and relate it to the proverb and idiom, what we will realizes is the FBI report lacks the “full facts before a particular course were followed.”
In other words, if we don’t winnow out the reason why people are killing each other, we cannot “drive out the threshing wheel over them: Instead, we jump around with various reasoning for the shootings, such as Covid, jobs, poverty, etc., never to acknowledged what are the facts that bring about a person to believe he should shoot someone.
For example, another article in the Chicago Tribune reported that 44 percent of people in jail have mental health problems and we need to focus on mental health.
However, based on the number of shootings occurring on the streets, the shooters are not in jail and for the most part are terrorizing people not to testify against them.
In My Opinion
In 1965, all the reasons and strategies were known and explained in a speech in detail of what is the main driver of the shootings.
In my opinion, all of what is occurring can be related to the fact that if you do not teach religious values to children to avoid engaging in the facts detailed in the speech, the children grow up and, sadly, the strategy used becomes their way of life as an adult
If interested
Read the Source Links below,
You Decide,
If after reading the articles, will you winnow your eyes to the facts and when you vote in the next election, vote only for legislators who support school choice and school vouchers?
If after reading, do you believe our present law system is not adequate to deal with solving the shootings because witnesses are too terrified to come forward for fear of reprisal by the shooters.
Do you believe the shootings will just disappear over time or will the strategy being used work even better in the future now that generations have become accustomed to the strategy, especially in poor areas and single-family households where the majority of shootings are occurring now??
Regards and goodwill blogging
Source Links
Chicago Tribune
Strategy of the Devil
Previous Posts
Record High Murders
Will Clue End Shootings Conundrum?
School Vouchers
Rudy u Martinka 
I heard an interesting factoid today.. that while violent crime has increased some 30% in the last year, the rate is still 40% lower than experienced in the 80’s and 90’s. Now, that’s a national stat so I dunno about Chicago specifically.
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Doug, i would love to see and checkout that report you heard.
In courts of law third party statements are not allowed because they can be based on gossip which king Solomon cosidered as an evil.
Regards and goodwill blogging
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https://nicic.gov/tags/crime-rate
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/27/1040904770/fbi-data-murder-increase-2020
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/27/politics/uniform-crime-report-2020/index.html
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/09/27/fbi-reports-2020-murder-surge-biggest-single-year-jump/5886792001/
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Doug
I will check your sources snd comment.
May be a few dsys working on a house project right now.
Regards and goodwill blogging
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Doug,
The Chicago Tribune article today seems to answer your question that the crime rate in the 1990’s was higher than the FBI report.
If anyone wants to understand why, all they have to do is compare the 1994 law passed by Clinton and agreed to by Biden for the Federal Government to fund mass incarcerations of anyone and building more jails.
This led to the chart decrease. If you invert charts of incarcerations to chart of shootings decrease, it has a direct correlation.
Now that the Fed no longer believes their law added to the social problems of the USA, it is beginning to rise again.
But that is not the core problem in my opinion. The core problem can be correlated to the waning of religion in the USA because of lack of school vouchers.
I may present a series of posts to correlate how it came about.
Regards and goodwill blogging
If Interested
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-gun-violence-chicago-new-york-los-angeles-20211011-jfwigave7bgxjkqa24rv62dgoe-story.html
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