Joe Rogan - Chicago's Problem is Socioeconomic

what do you think can be done to stop this stuff have you thought about it yeah I think about it all the time it's it's it's a harder question for me to ask them to come up with ways of why we don't need gun control right you know because that's that's yeah you know it's hard especially when I'm taking gun control off the table because people are always saying you know you guys don't you guys don't want to move one inch well it's like yeah because we've been moving an inch for the last 20 30 so the problem is it's a it's a [ __ ] up argument because the people that are holding the guns are not necessarily the people that are doing these things you're trying to attack the the vast majority of gun owners are not committing crimes with their guns they're not so when I think about what can we do to stop different types of shooting for instance let's talk let's start with the let's start with what the type of shootings that happen the most Brian gang violence right so if you look at the statistics you think oh my gosh America's war zone right 3,000 people you die in an in the vast majority of it that is remaining as actual homicides is gang violence so then we have a gang problem we have a gang problem in this country we have a socio-economic problem in very specific areas in this country right because I just came from South Side Chicago where I started in Hyde Park where Obama used to live and in drove a few minutes into an area that look like a bomb went off they don't have the violence in High Park that they had in that area why had the same access to illegal guns they don't have the same problem because there's a difference in economics and no one wants to judge when no one wants to address that right I'm a kid growing up in that neighborhood and I'm going to a school that shitty right I don't give a damn about me I I lucked up and was able to go to good schools right I went to schools where my teachers cared I went to schools where teachers pushed me when I was slacking off you know I had the ability to take out loans to go to a good law school you know I had those abilities if I'm a kid growing up in this environment and I can't find refuge in my school I can't find refuge at home because my mom's working three or four or five jobs so she's never there where am I gonna go find parents I'm gonna wear gonna find that pure into influence you can fight on the streets so now I'm on the streets being make money what am I gonna do for money well then there's the knock economy very conveniently right there for me right so drugs so now I'm selling now I'm staying on the corner selling drugs I gotta protect my product all right if I don't someone's gonna take it from me so what do I do I get a gun I carry a gun now I'm stuck in a situation I'm just stuck in this violent loop right there that feeds on itself and so now I'm stuck defending myself against the guy who's shooting at me trying to take my stuff and I'm shooting back at him maybe not because I'm trying to take your stuff but because he's trying to take mine all right so that's what you get that violence that comes from that from those particular areas now if we would have sat back and said okay we have hyper concentrated areas in this country this is a widespread it's hyper concentrated communities in this country that are dealing with this that are also the result of the vast majority of our gun violence if we sat back and thought about from a social economic standpoint how do we fix this what do we do how do we present opportunity I'm not saying gonna just hand out stuff but how do we fix this from the standpoint of improving our schools house I can draw five minutes one direction and have a school that has everything you can name and then drive in a drive in the opposite direction and schools can barely have textbooks to give to their kids hmm think about that yeah so why aren't we focusing our energy on building that up versus talking about oh we need to get the guns off the streets you did that you have that in Chicago you have every gun law imaginable in Chicago but yes our Chicago still looks the way that it does still has a violence that it does right so if we would if we provide I mean you give people something lose or to live for they don't throw away life so easily plain and simple so it's nice social economic status is in the dirt I don't have a problem looking at another kid down street and shooting at him taking his life I don't have anything I don't have anything to lose but if we were to focus our attention in fixing that same way we talk about the mental health issue with respect of Nash Healey's in school shootings we wouldn't have to worry about the guns because we won't have people wanting to do those things or have the capability to do listening right so then that deals with that vast majority of the violence that we had there focusing that energy in fixing those communities I agree with you 100% and we've talked about this many many times in the show that I think that if you wanted to make America a better place one of the best ways to do it is to make it easier for someone to succeed make it easy and stop pretending that it's a level playing field because I didn't grow up in a level playing field I got lucky I did you got lucky a lot of people did and if you go to somewhere like the south side of Chicago and you don't realize that you got lucky you're blind then there's we if you want to what's the best way to make America stronger less losers less people who lose or how is that well give them more of a chance give them more of an opportunity and give them guidance ship community centers clean up the streets fix buildings but that's a lot of [ __ ] money that we're spending right now in Afghanistan and Iraq and even missiles and all kinds of crazy [ __ ] that we're not putting any money into that but then who do we hold accountable we for friendly doing like like if we talk about the inner cities for instance mm-hmm they've been democratically run for ages now the local leadership there's democratic right but there's no money there the problem is there's no money's going somewhere look I mean look at Chicago it's not enough I mean the the money is going into the areas where people are wealthy and that's what they're supporting they're not supporting these impoverished areas and but then and you know what you're absolutely right so if that's the case and we all understand that and you know that stop someone's [ __ ] about gun control that well let's just say that that's just one one aspect yeah I agree with you there so in that sense in when it comes to gun violence it's very complex when it comes to gang violence and it's very complex and I agree with you that they need there's no other way to stop that then to fix the inner cities where people are just in that cycle of constant poverty and crime and that's all they see around them so it becomes normalized yeah

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Length: 6min 25sec (385 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 18 2018