maybe that's because they don't have the same sections of society that commit rape robbery an murder out of all proportion of their numbers that we do...
Posted on 02/15/2019 6:04:21 PM PST by daniel1212
Well, Biblically, thieves had to pay back what they stole as via slavery. And many crimes were capital ones , normally executed by communal stoning (the offense was against all), versus antiseptic state execution. And what is missing in the Old Testament is much of any prison system.
This dumb question deserves a dumb answer.
“Because there are no guns”
Instead, a guy who is just stronger than you, or perhaps attackers in pairs.. they win.
You die.
My hero, John Moses Browning, invented a device that allows a little old lady with no combat experience to defend herself.
The comparison should not be "gun crime", it should be all crime.
If "gun crime" goes up, but all crime goes down, it is a win.
Another false premise is the cherry-picking of countries.
Why do they ignore Mexico, Brazil, Jamaica, Russia? Lots of Mexicans, Brazilians, and Jamaicans in the U.S.
Cherry picking the countries compared, and limiting the discussion to "gun crime" is just a way to create the results desired.
Good read...
I’ve left the northeast, and now am leaving Pennsylvania.
Let me tell everyone.. these are dangerous places. Detroit level of danger.
I’m sure there are, but that doesn’t negate what I said. Any discussion of crime that doesn’t factor in demographics is meaningless.
When DC had its prison in Lorton VA - about 25 miles from DC, it was asked why they kept it there and the then Mayor, Marion Barry, said they had to keep it open as it may be the ONLY time some of the locals got to leave their neighborhood.
Believe it was also Barry that said the crime rate in DC wasn’t so bad if you threw out the murders....
Mayor for life huh....some of these lifetime pols makes one seriously believe there definitely should be a litmus test for the VOTERS especially when the only way term limits gets passed is for the people it affects to vote on it.....Nevah Hoppen Cholliee
This is an excellent article. Ignore the title. It leads you to believe that the results of gun control in other nations is somehow saying that we should do it, too. I know what everyone’s reaction here is, because mine is the same. Here we go again, another article glorifying gun control and why the rest of the world is better for it and we are stupid for clinging to our guns in this country.
Just skip the title and get right into reading. Be patient. He makes salient points. He’s obviously a patriot.
I read the article, word for word, even read it out loud to my family. It does a very good job of explaining why other nations actually have us to thank for their low violence and that they are really ticking time bombs because of their demographics that have also aided in low violence. The nations he has chosen to show graphs of are very appropriate. BTW, he didn’t make a big deal out of it being gun specific violence, so I think his point is broader than that.
We are blowing a golden opportunity to get blacks and Mexicans to turn on their slave owning democrap, by not exploiting the fact that they will loose the right to defend themselves. Spread the truth that white democraps want to take away minority peoples guns and right to defend themselves. There is no way in hell that the Democraps could refute it as a lie....especially with Bella Pelosi comment to declare a crisis to confiscate guns!
Quora is liberal claptrap first off, and second iff i have no time to read this mass of garbage.
I have a statistician on guns. His name is Dr. Lott, he is a professor who has written TWO books that show that, in America more guns mean less crime.
maybe that's because they don't have the same sections of society that commit rape robbery an murder out of all proportion of their numbers that we do...
Yes. You cannot compare the US to any other country in the world, a fact the writer actually makes, so why try.
We have unique problems, more due to a lack of strong leadership and common sense than anything else.
We ain’t the rest of the f**king world. We are The United States Of America and our Second Amendment makes all the other amendments possible. For over two hundred years We The People have had the right to keep and bear arms and for two hundred years it’s keep us free and the government in check. “When the people fear the government there is Tyranny. When the government fears the people there is Liberty’’.- Thomas Jefferson. I don’t give a f**k what the rest of the world thinks about our Second Amendment rights.
He did a pretty complete job dancing around the melanin component.
In a tiny closet in the back of the mind of every politician whispers the Second Amendment.
and IQ.
How many of the citizens of the developed nations have this right protected from interference by the government?
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Leftist have difficulty grasping the intent of the 2nd Amendment so a few examples might help to correctly inform them.
A well educated Public, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Books, shall not be infringed.
A well regulated Internet being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear Modems shall not be infringed.
A well regulated Carpentry being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear Hammers shall not be infringed.
I had wonderful vacations there and never once thought about our safety. People were friendly and outgoing and just seemed to be happy all the time.
That's all changed now that the drug cartels have taken over........
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