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Perhaps it's because I am from a city where the crime rate is substantially lower that I see 450 murders a year as outrageous. Maybe that is the new norm for the Chicago area. I know what I see when I deliver there, and there are some neighborhoods that all I want is out!!! Chicago and Detroit aren't the only cities with problems, but their numbers in my mind are substantial.... If we have 24 murders a year where I'm from, it's outrageous, and I don't live in a small community....
What stands out about El Paso is that it sits right next to what was not long ago the most dangerous city in the world -- Juarez, Mexico, in fact if anything they are one metropolitan area. Sister-cities intertwined economies, in fact El Paso is a low wage city with lots of poverty.
Interesting that Juarez was the half of the metropolitan area with the anti-gun laws. In El Paso guns are legal and make it one of the safest cities in the world.
Until the gun laws in the USA are brought into the 21st Century ( everyone and their mother do not need guns here) then many, many, many innocent lives will be lost ............. maybe a member of your family will be the next shooting fatality????
We could always legalize drugs and make it easier to arrest crazy people.
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