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For years, I've been arguing with European acquaintances that their much-vaunted low crime rates had nothing to do with their socialist governments and gun control laws and everything to do with their homogeneous populations. It's always a lot easier to get people to behave when they have all been brought up in the same culture with the same standards of behavior, and don't have to deal with the tension of racism or competition from other immigrant cultures, as America does. That's why there are so few gang killings among the Norwegian bachelor farmers of Minnesota.

Now, after opening their borders for so long and letting in so many Jamaicans, Arabs, etc., many with criminal backgrounds, and punishing law-abiding people for defending themselves, their violent crime rates are skyrocketing, as anyone with a functioning brain could've predicted. They refuse to deal with this reality because it disproves their premise, so their solution is to lard on ever more socialism, political correctness and gun control laws. If they were doctors, they'd be like Theodoric of York, Medieval Barber, prescribing more and more bleedings for anemia patients.

Your post #20 is worth an article and thread of its own! Bullseye!

prescribing more and more bleedings for anemia patients.

Amen and Amen!

and everything to do with their homogeneous populations.

Pretty much every ethnic demographic in the U.S. has a lower murder rate than their counterpart in their native land. Americans of British descent had about half to a third the murder rate of the British in Britain in the 70s and 80s.

Excellent post!

Europe's crime stats are not exactly the most reliable. I live in Germany...10th year now...and the Russian mafia has basically taken over the small eatery establishment game here in my local area. They show up with 4 thugs, demand a $200 payment each month for protection and the local Germans pay it. The people that ran to the police, had their tires cut later and reminded who runs the region. The people that refused to play the game, had their place broken in and destroyed. The local cops really don't want to have deal with any of this...otherwise, the mafia will come and visit their house at night. This is simply the beginning stages. By 2020, Germany will be one massive mafia zone, with public fear and lack of trust in government. And what does the German government do? Why they make owning a weapon harder each passing day. Hunters still have rights and can own weapons, but there is such massive public fear about children in houses where guns are, and that these kids have access to the weapons.

Europe will slowly watch its murder numbers increase and eventually agree about hardened criminals, and the need for public safety...but only after thousands of innocent victums die.

GREAT post!

For years, I've been arguing with European acquaintances that their much-vaunted low crime rates had nothing to do with their socialist governments and gun control laws and everything to do with their homogeneous populations.

There's also the little-known fact that the FBI goes out of its way to lump as many crimes into the "gun-related" column as possible (to justify their yearly budgets), while the British government goes out of its way to get as many crimes and deaths OUT of the "gun-related" column as possible (so that they can continue to proclaim that crime is low even as it spirals out of control to new heights every day). In other words, US gun-crime statistics are inflated, and UK gun-crime statistics are deflated. It's entirely possible that the UK has already surpassed us in violent crime.