So Steven Rattner, one of the architects of the auto bailout in 2008, thinks this:
As has been pointed out many times, if you remove gang violence, of the murders concentrated in just a handful of American urban areas (mostly gang driven), the U.S. place on this chart would fall right in line with the cluster here. But we don’t ever want to talk about gang violence, or why the media only report “mass shootings” when white people are the victims.
But I think my occasional writing partner Ken Green has the best riposte:
