[FateAmenableToChange]

I think alot of this relates to drug usage (legal and illegal type). You might pull a gun on some guy breaking into a house and have to use the gun....but if you drug-tested the idiot who broke in and why he was aggressive in nature...he’s high on something. It’s the same way when you have some 16-year-old kid in Philly try to rob a corner grocery and he gets shot by the cop...the kid is probably high on something as well.

I agree that drug use contributes to violent crime, but illegal drug use by rural kids is almost comparable to that of urban kids. Adults tend to use illegal drugs about equally in both rural and urban areas.

[angry elephant]

I agree that drug use contributes to violent crime, but illegal drug use by rural kids is almost comparable to that of urban kids. Adults tend to use illegal drugs about equally in both rural and urban areas.”

That might be true, but whether drug addled or driven by fanaticism, folks might be more constrained in areas where there are more guns to turn them back.