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Would a widespread right to carry arms make a community safer? : Comments
By Everett Themer, published 12/3/2015Advocates of Right to Carry laws tout study after study, all claiming to prove that enacting these laws has reduced and prevented crime across the country.
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Posted by R0bert, Thursday, 12 March 2015 12:32:26 PM
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Widespread carrying of guns may not make a community safer, but the RIGHT to carry a gun will!
What's important and sufficient is that criminals will know that you and I MAY carry a gun - unfortunately some of us, hopefully just a few, will use this opportunity to actually take up guns, but that is a reasonable price to pay for our safety, at least in our own homes. Posted by Yuyutsu, Thursday, 12 March 2015 1:23:23 PM
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R0bert,
There's a possible explanation in this paper as to why European descended men are less violent than others. Western Europe, State formation and genetic pacification. Peter Frost, c/o Bernard Saladin d’Anglure, Department of Anthropology, Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada http://www.epjournal.net/articles/western-europe-state-formation-and-genetic-pacification/getpdf.php?file=EP1302300243.pdf We've often been asked to ponder the reasons why countries like Switzerland, Canada and Norway which have widespread gun ownership record low rates of gun crime compared to the U.S.A and why between the 1960's an 1990's gun crime exploded in the U.S, the most plausible explanation is racial differences. Posted by Jay Of Melbourne, Thursday, 12 March 2015 2:44:24 PM
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Suseonline, "Hands up those who think America is a safer society than ours?"
In many places it probably is safer. The violence and crimes with weapons is almost invariably lower black on black and some Hispanic, involving drugs and the gangs that make money trafficking them. Australia has had some indication of what it could be like through the takeover of some outlaw motorcycle clubs by middle eastern gangs. http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/police-braced-for-bikie-crime-rise-following-mohammad-akbar-keshtiers-release-20150116-12rk53.html Posted by onthebeach, Thursday, 12 March 2015 4:31:02 PM
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Well I don't know about you lot, but it sure as hell would make me safer.
But then I always was a good shot, & had more than a little training. I must admit I was not too sure about fighting my way back from behind enemy lines with a Smith & Wesson 38, if I crashed, but I reckon I'd do better with even one of them, if attacked by a bunch of "Leb" thugs, as my son was in the streets of Allawah {Sydney] one afternoon. If you want comparisons on safety, try Switzerland, where every house has a rifle. Posted by Hasbeen, Thursday, 12 March 2015 5:18:17 PM
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Tommy Sotomayor describes what it's like to live in a majority White suburb in "open carry" Arizona and compares it to other places he's lived.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAPKqjFeXxA I don't agree with everything Tommy says all of the time but if anyone's interested in the other side of the race debate in the U.S he's a good source of information, as are David Carroll, The Brother Of Logic And Commonsense and Reverend James David Manning. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kit2Pl8fcfo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIQWCWSDcIA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPp5LrG1t5I Posted by Jay Of Melbourne, Thursday, 12 March 2015 5:31:40 PM
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White 44.6%
Hispanic or Latino 27.5%
Black or African American 25.1%
Asian 11.8%
American Indian 0.4%
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander 0.1%
Other races 26%
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