But there are studies in which areas with higher gun ownership have less crime. Both Yale and Harvard (not exactly right wing) studies show this
A NY newspaper decided to "out" gun owners in its county, publishing names and addresses. It was a bad thing because many of those gun owners are police and penitentiary guards who have families. So, a blogger decided to "out" the journalists on that paper.
The paper's response? They were so afraid that they hired armed guards to protect them from potential crazies. They didn't worry about who would be harmed when someone else might die.
And at least in the wild west both parties were armed, not just the bad guys.
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A NY newspaper decided to "out" gun owners in its county, publishing names and addresses. It was a bad thing because many of those gun owners are police and penitentiary guards who have families. So, a blogger decided to "out" the journalists on that paper.
The paper's response? They were so afraid that they hired armed guards to protect them from potential crazies. They didn't worry about who would be harmed when someone else might die.
And at least in the wild west both parties were armed, not just the bad guys.
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How much does a study like that really mean though?
people with criminal convictions aren't buying guns legally, are they still counted in the statistics? also, they might share communal guns so have less of them.
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people with criminal convictions aren't buying guns legally, are they still counted in the statistics? also, they might share communal guns so have less of them.
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You seen the video? He actually just explodes out of nowhere.
It's frickin' brilliant.
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It's frickin' brilliant.
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Incedentally,
books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=less+of+them%2C+fewer+of+them&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=
I don't know about you, I'm sick of the young and lazy coming along and degrading English. It's really gotten out of hand.
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books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=less+of+them%2C+fewer+of+them&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=
I don't know about you, I'm sick of the young and lazy coming along and degrading English. It's really gotten out of hand.
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I saw a map that showed the opposite correlation once,
maybe I can find it again. But the correlation is quite difficult. The highest gun ownership tends to be in rural areas, which also corresponds to poverty, and high crime rates usually follow poverty.
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maybe I can find it again. But the correlation is quite difficult. The highest gun ownership tends to be in rural areas, which also corresponds to poverty, and high crime rates usually follow poverty.
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