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Crime in Switzerland is low because they have extensive social safety nets that prevent the level of abject poverty present in the US. Gun availability has nothing to do with it. Except for the UK, Europe has plenty of guns and they don't have near the crime problems that we do.
But we can't accomplish things like that because SOCIALISM!!!
I'm shocked to come back here this morning and see that this post has turned into a gun debate /sarcasm/. Anyone know if the guy from yesterday was caught?
I'm shocked to come back here this morning and see that this post has turned into a gun debate /sarcasm/. Anyone know if the guy from yesterday was caught?
Nevermind, just found out that police found the guy's car, but the shooter is still at large. Car was abandoned somewhere in the Hudson Valley.
Oh the old Poverty causes Crime so therefore we need to take my money and give it to the poor....wait, that is a CRIME.
Poverty has no relation to crime?! Hmm, which NRA sponsored sociology text did this pearl come from?
Guns are awesome. I love them. They just don't mix well with poverty, mental illness, religious zealotry, alcohol and many of our glorious freedoms. Gotta find a balance somewhere. Not sure anyone on either side of the debate cares for compromise. Each sees giving an inch as a slippery slope. To where I have no idea.
Isn't the whole idea to have gun liberty for 2nd amendment reasons?! Right to militia and all that jazz? Protect the republic. Protection from govt tyranny? When did it become for "the right to kill fellow citizens who are less fortunate and scare me?" I didn't see that in the constitution.
Note: none of those Swiss children had to sell drugs to get out of the projects, go to school hungry, join a gang to protect themselves, or deal with a failed school that does little more than babysit. And they all have access to robust healthcare including mental healthcare. But of course it was just the firearms training.
Note: none of those Swiss children had to sell drugs to get out of the projects, go to school hungry, join a gang to protect themselves, or deal with a failed school that does little more than babysit. And they all have access to robust healthcare including mental healthcare. But of course it was just the firearms training.
OH whoa the poor ghetto snipe.
BTW...can you finally decide...are kids going hungry or becoming obese...you libs are all over the place with that one.
Said the old white man who grew up in a time and place of relative privilege and plenty and cannot even imagine what it is like to face true poverty or institutional racism. Oh snap I said race! But you can't be a racist because you never use the N-word (in public), right?
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BTW...can you finally decide...are kids going hungry or becoming obese...you libs are all over the place with that one.
Yeah see it's actually both, since either they don't have money for food (hungry), or they have just a little money for food, which translates into cheap processed food that makes you fat. Not that I expect you to actually understand nutrition, since conservative thought is entirely based on "common sense" and "what feels right to out-of-touch old people" rather than study and logic.
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