[Email sent to Rachel Bhalla, regional director of a gun safety organization, who wrote him for the Wear Orang campaign for the National Gun Violence Awareness Day]

Rachel,

Thanks for writing

Some people say that I’m “on the spectrum”, and I think that’s likely correct. Three indications of this are (a) I’m averse to changes in clothing; I tend to wear black t-shirts every single day, (b) I am quite interested in data and statistics, (c) I am unconcerned about the popularity or social respectability of the conclusions that I reach and the opinions I espouse

With regards to “gun violence”, I’ve done a deep dive on the topic, and all of the data that I read indicates that violence isn’t associated with the presence of guns, but with the presence of African Americans. Blacks commit violent crimes at 5-10x the rate of whites. This is one reason that there’s such an amazingly tight correlation between states with a majority white population, and states with extraordinarily low crime rates

I agree that “awareness” is important; people need to understand facts if they’re going to push for the correct policies to reduce violence

You have my pledge that I will wear a black T-shirt on Friday June 6, to help make people aware of the fact that crime is predominantly caused by African Americans, and not by guns

Have a great week,
Travis Corcoran