But what about all those violent immigrants raping everything in sight and causing America to be a wasteland of death and destruction that i kept hearing about?
Its less common than the native-born
Fox’s “crimes of immigrants” regular feature is the modern equivalent of the Nazi reports about crimes of Jews
Wait, their what? Is that real? That’s gotta be a meme, right?
i watch fox news sometimes just to keep tabs on it. its straight up nazi propaganda. A constant stream of the most vile shit. And yes, it is a real category on fox:
I didn’t find that exact wording, but there’s this:
https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/immigration/migrant-crime
How crime is covered in America
In 2020, with the onset of the pandemic, murders spiked in the United States. When the FBI released its 2020 crime report on September 27, 2021, it was front-page news in the New York Times the next day. The story highlighted that it was the “biggest one-year increase in homicides… since national records started in 1960.”
So, in 2025, how did the New York Times cover the FBI report documenting the largest annual decrease in homicides ever recorded? The report did not make the front page on August 6, and, as of Wednesday afternoon, the New York Times had not covered the story at all.
That’s because NYT is, and has been a garbage publication for over a century.
If it bleeds, it leads
Its because they want to keep you riled up thinking someone is right around the corner waiting to get you. Every time I hop on my wife’s facebook to check a group message or something I get bombasted with missing teenage girl posts. Yeah, it happens, and it’s unfortunate, but it’s actually exceedingly rare for minors to get kidnapped by anyone other than other family members.
they want to keep you riled up thinking someone is right around the corner waiting to get you
missing teenage girl posts
It’s tragically ironic, because they (the people at the top) could be seen as the biggest threat in these cases, with their system of sex trafficking/rape islands/etc.
I will say, I’m a little surprised Trump didn’t use just the headline without the article to claim crime is down because of the deportations. I know he wouldn’t be able to back it up with data, but when has that mattered to him?
I guess the illusion of crime being up is still more important to him than pretending he can pat himself on the back.
If you really want to test your cognitive dissonance skills then consider this as well: Mass shootings are extremely rare too.
If you feel yourself getting angry and tempted to type out a long-winded reply about how awful they are, how they only happen in the US, etc. then congratulations - you now understand other people who fixate on specific types of crime (e.g. immigrant crime).
Rare as they may be, they’re still by orders of magnitude more common in the US than in any other developed country. And they are entirely preventable, as said countries demonstrate.
The next question is why.
Full and semi auto weapons are over 100 years old. The AR-15, in particular, is 70 years old. However, we don’t see school shootings really pop up until Columbine in 1999, and that happened while the federal assault weapons ban was still in effect.
Of their weapons, only the Hi-point carbine would be covered by the AWB. The company has manufactured a version that skirts around some state level AWBs. The rest of their weapons were pistols and shotguns, would be difficult to ban outright, plus improvised bombs made of commonly available stuff.
We have cultural problem with school shootings, and it didn’t start until the late 90s. If it were just availability of certain tech, it would have started decades earlier.
A huge issue is the right wing itself. Several shooters cite conspiratorial nonsense spread by the likes of Alex Jones. At least one of the Columbine shooters was praiseworthy of Nazis in his journal, though the exact motives have been elusive. Regardless, the takeover of John Birch Society thinking on the right plays a role.
We have plenty of nutjobs in Europe too. The difference is the availability of guns so it’s a reasonable assumption that this is a major factor.
You felt it didn’t you? That uncontrollable desire to just immediately refute what I said with anything that would justify your feelings? That right there - that is the cognitive dissonance.
No it isn’t, you moron. A mass shooting isn’t like a robbery or single murder. You are comparing something much bigger and more devastating to something common and widespread. Nuclear bombs don’t go off everyday, so when one does it is big news. Earthquakes happen everyday, but magnitude 8 ones do not and will be focused on when they do. If we start seeing nuclear bombs or magnitude 8 earthquakes going off a lot more than expected, then it isn’t a fixation on a certain type of event when that gets noticed by people.
Mass shootings happen literally every day in the US. While they aren’t as common as normal murders, they are far more common than anyone should expect. In other countries, you hear about a mass casualty event (mass stabbing, mass shooting, car driving through a crowd) less than once per year. It’s so rare in other countries that it is huge news when it happens. In the US it happens every single day (503 events in 2024 and already 262 in the first 7 mo of 2025). So while France might get one mass stabbing a year and the US gets 500 mass shootings a year, we aren’t 500 times their population. We are roughly 6 times their population but have 500 times more mass stabbing/shooting/murder events.
Contrast that with normal murder rates. In the US, the murder rate is 5.76 per 100k people, while France is 1.34 per 100k. Our murder rate is 5 times theirs, but our mass murder rate is 60 times theirs.
It’s not fixation to notice that something is VERY out of whack in one specific country compared to the rest of the world.
From Wikipedia:
cognitive dissonance is described as a mental phenomenon in which people unknowingly hold fundamentally conflicting cognitions.
Please explain to me what the conflicting cognitions in my comment are.
Both are true through. They are uncommon but also they are massively more common in the US. Thousands of deaths that do not occur in other countries. It shouldn’t happen.
Both are true through. They are uncommon but also they are massively more common in the US.
You need to start slicing the data to make them both true - but yes. But what if, and I haven’t verified any numbers or anything, violent crimes committed by immigrants in the US were actually more common than mass shootings? Would you see it as a problem?
Do note that I’m being a devil’s advocate here - I’m not proposing any sort of rightness/wrongness or making any other conclusions. I’m just curious how much you’ve thought this through. I fully expect to just be insulted or something regardless.
Did you learn a new term and are desperate to use it wherever you can? It’s not even cognitive dissonance. I think you ultimately got it mixed up with something else.
Mass shootings are rare globally (relative to other crimes), but when they do happen it’s almost always in the US.
You guys will come up with any excuses to keep your firearms.
I wouldn’t call this rare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2024
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