In our Deep Dive…
U.S. Gun Culture and Mass Shootings...
Do mass shootings exist because of a nuanced set of cultural challenges, or do our problems with armed violence stem from an inordinate love of guns?
And in Courage or Cringe this week… Oral Roberts Basketball, Wall Street banks rebels against racial equity audits and Lil Nas runs with the Devil:
Does the NCAA’s silence amid the outcry over sweet 16 team Oral Roberts indicate their respect for the Christian values of the university, or do they signal a tone-deaf diversity misstep?
Should Banks be expected to provide only capital and public sentiment as evidence of their pro-diversity stance, or should racial-equity audits be required before they get a clean bill of health?
Is a rapper’s perfectly-packaged demonic homage an inventive and harmless marketing promotion, or evidence of anti-Christian bigotry?
Deep Dive:
U.S. Gun Culture and Mass Shootings: A complicated history of personal freedoms, violence and the inability to create change.
A 2015 study https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24861430 (estimated) that only 4 percent of American gun deaths could be attributed to mental health issues.
Also whether a population plays more or fewer video games appears to https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2012/12/17/ten-country-comparison-suggests-theres-little-or-no-link-between-video-games-and-gun-murders/?utm_term=.b8ce5f956058 (have no impact), according to a study from the Washington Post where they looked at gun violence vs the top 10 video game markets.
Also the US is not more prone to crime than other developed countries.. Just more lethal. This according to a study by the University of California, Berkeley.
More gun ownership corresponds with more gun murders across virtually every axis:
among https://web.archive.org/web/20170105171544im_/http://tewksburylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/guns-and-death-rates.jpg (developed countries),
among http://www.motherjones.com/wp-content/uploads/ownership-vs-deaths630.png (American states),
among https://books.google.com/books?id=iANw1pb4fPAC&pg=PA61&lpg=PA61&dq=david+hemenway+%22more+guns+in+a+community+lead+to+more+homicide%22&source=bl&ots=GMTIi0MHC2&sig=x63NBQltDDNYkxHQeADfEl1EOis&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2nQIVLiKFY6wyATa5YGoCw&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=david%20hemenway%20%22more%20guns%20in%20a%20community%20lead%20to%20more%20homicide%22&f=false (American towns and cities) and when https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17070975 (controlling) for crime rates.
Courage or Cringe:
NCAA’s silence on Oral Roberts University March Madness “Controversy”:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/03/25/oral-roberts-university-basketball-deserve-cancel-culture-golden-knights-column/6994502002/ (https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/03/25/oral-roberts-university-basketball-deserve-cancel-culture-golden-knights-column/6994502002/)
Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs urge shareholders to vote against racial-equity audits
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/citigroup-wells-fargo-bank-of-america-urge-shareholders-to-vote-against-racial-equity-audits-11616026865?siteid=yhoof2 (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/citigroup-wells-fargo-bank-of-america-urge-shareholders-to-vote-against-racial-equity-audits-11616026865?siteid=yhoof2)
Lil Nas X's unofficial 'Satan' Nikes containing human blood sell out in under a minute
https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/lil-nas-x-s-nike-air-max-97-satan-shoes-leaves-twitter-scandalized... Support this podcast
