For those of you who think Europe is more civilized than America....

[steven_h]

Originally Posted by Ford Beebe

Europe has far less violence in their cities, particularly gun violence. Nobody claims Europe is without violence, but I feel much safer in Rome or Paris or London at night than I would in Miami, Los Angeles or Chicago.

Have you walked the streets of all those cities, or are you imagining it?

Everyone should legally carry and crime would plummet.

P.S. I have a friend in North London who was beaten and robbed, in his own front door. They have an epedemic of forced entry crimes because nobody is armed. Why do the Bobbies now wear guns? They never needed them before. Assault rates have doubled in the last decade. 9.5/1000

What Europe lacks in murders they make up for in assaults, thefts and B&E crime.

[ERS-One]

Statistics would go a long way here, rather than newspaper headlines regarding individual crimes.

[whogo]

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

Why aren't you posting about the cross-burnings that happen from time to time? Your moral outrage seems strangely one-sided.

So does yours.

[Haakon]

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

Where were you all when a Russian immigrant shot Bill Cosby's son on an LA freeway?

LOL, really? You had to go back 15 years to find an example? Where were they? Not on CD since it didn't exist.

[Visvaldis]

European soccer fans have a reputation for being hoodlums. That's nothing new.

[Haakon]

Originally Posted by Ford Beebe

Europe has far less violence in their cities, particularly gun violence. Nobody claims Europe is without violence, but I feel much safer in Rome or Paris or London at night than I would in Miami, Los Angeles or Chicago.

Your feelings don't match the facts. Europe has less gun violence but it more violent than the US. The violent crime rate in the UK is 5x what it is in the US. The UK is as bad or worse than the absolute worst US city.

The most violent country in Europe: Britain is also worse than South Africa and U.S. | Mail Online of course some will stick their head in the sand because of who published the article.

Or this compilation of the data: TFS Magnum: Crime in the UK versus Crime in the US