Dennis Prager challenges the idea that poverty causes murder, pointing out that most poor people don't commit crimes. He questions why Chicago's mayor and outlets like the Chicago Tribune and CNN don't ask this basic question.
How do thugs like the Chicago mayor— how do they explain all the poor people who don't murder? The vast majority of poor people, black or white, don't murder. How are they to be explained? Are the ones who murder poorer than they? No. So I really— I would like to know. So Mayor Johnson, how do you account for the fact that the great majority of blacks in the inner city don't murder? Apparently the disinvestment has not prompted them to murder. So what's the difference between the ones who do murder and the ones who don't? Wouldn't you love to be able to ask them that? Who's going to ask them that? The Chicago Tribune? CNN? Who's going to ask him that question? Not only would they not ask it, they didn't even think of it. Because they buy this lie that lack of funds causes murder.
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