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[–] [Deleted] 1 points (+1|-0)

We've got no go zones in the US. They're called black ghettos but you're not allowed to say it. If I simply make eye contact w/ a pedestrian from my automobile driving through one it often elicits an angry response. You'll find these in cities of all sizes. When my sister lived in the relatively small town of Lynchburg for a few years her car broke down six blocks from the place she was renting at the time. Needed a new alternator belt was all. I drove out there and during the course of replacing it the next day I was threatened three times by various people in less than an hour. Literally just a few blocks over you encountered none of that where she was living.

I've always found it funny the most predominantly anti-gun white people live in the whitest areas and countries. When people from the UK, Canada, or Australia criticize US gun laws I can't help but laugh. Your countries are roughly 90% white and don't actually have free speech.

[–] PMYA 0 points (+1|-1)

Not wanting guns in the country has nothing to do with ethnicity. I don't want guns in the UK because it will lead to more murders, plain and simple.

This does not necessarily mean I would advocate scrapping gun ownership in the US though, as it would be impractical to do so.

[–] [Deleted] 1 points (+1|-0) Edited

FBI crime statistics don't show that. It would be impractical in the US as we collectively have more guns than citizens so I agree on that point. 13% of our population commits over half of all violent crimes and murders. You can easily cut that number down by excluding, most women, children and black men of a certain age. The reality is 6% of the population commits half of all murders and violent crimes. In areas w/ strict gun control like Chicago you only see one trend. Criminals still have guns and get prosecuted lightly by liberal politicians b/c to do otherwise would be "racist". If you really want to see something interesting in our crime stats we don't classify "gang related" crimes as mass shootings even when they meet the criteria of people killed. Therefore they never make national news. Sweden does much the same thing interestingly but in a different way. "Gang Related" crime isn't terrorism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_grenade_attacks_in_Sweden

Crazy we hardly have any grenade attacks in the US w/ a massively larger population. Sweden doesn't have a "terrorism" problem. It's illegal to collect racial crime stats there. In the US they simply combine "white hispanics" w/ the white figures. I could show you an endless array of "white" convicts that are actually hispanic.

There are good people in the world of every race and religion. Pretending certain groups as a whole aren't more inclined to murder and violence is absurd when the data always indicates otherwise. It's like saying a labrador is as likely to kill you as a pitbull. They're both dogs.

[–] PMYA 1 points (+1|-0)

Statistics on states with restrictive gun laws are not the same as countries with those laws. You can't expect guns to stay out of Chicago when they are present everywhere else. The UK is in a far better position to enforce gun control than any US state, and probably more so than most other European countries. Australia is another country with gun law restrictions, and whilst I have no idea what the actual statistics are over there, I'd be willing to bet gun ownership is a lot lower than states in the US with gun control due to their isolated nature.