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Old 07-23-2012, 03:20 PM   #104 (permalink)
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No I don't agree with guns at all, I'm just looking at the correlation between crime and economics. The two often go hand in hand, but in the case of the USA that doesn't seem to hold true and its something of exception. My only take on it, is that the USA was built up on guns and superior armaments over the indigenous population and gun culture developed and has been present ever since. In Europe we've never had the same historical parallels, so gun culture is totally alien to us.
That's a fair point. It's more complicated than anything we are pointing out... It's a big mash up of all these issues. I'm just trying to get people to see that no matter the cause, all signs point to stricter gun laws.
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