Posted on 06/04/2022 10:26:24 AM PDT by rktman
I was chatting with a horrified Swedish visitor who described a visit to Nevada.
“There was this grandmother, an elderly lady, and she took out a gun from her purse,” he told me, shaking his head.
We were having this conversation in a city which had racked up 77 shootings in just one month.
Few New Yorkers legally own guns. The NYPD has issued around 40,000 handgun permits in a city of over 8 million. That’s around one handgun for every two-hundred New Yorkers.
Don’t assume that the parts of the city with the most guns are the most dangerous.
The vast majority of handgun permits are in Staten Island, which has the lowest crime rate in the city, as opposed to the Bronx, with the highest. Manhattan has few legal guns relative to its population while the white working class areas of Brooklyn have some of the most legal guns.
The Daily News, which interviewed a criminologist as part of its anti-gun crusade, found that he was "puzzled". “Some people see a mugging in the Bronx, and they want to get a gun on Staten Island,” he argued. “That’s not rational, but some people really want guns.”
Perhaps one of the reasons that there are fewer muggings in Staten Island is that more of the folks there can prevent them. Muggers, like most predators, prefer victims who don’t fight back.
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Anyone got a pic of justine trueDOH?
Masada,,
I wished I’d seen it!
I just wandered Jerusalem with a Bible and a Camera
for ten days.
They either steal them or buy them on the black Market.
Careful, you’ll shoot your lung out.
Nice.
“—Will Not go Quietly into that UTOPIAN Goodnight!”
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Just as good now as Then,
Thanks for the Flash Back!
Go back to Sweden, Sven. You know, the country where men stand around while their women and children are raped and brutalized by inbred, filthy parasites.
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