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But guns — whether used accidentally or with intent — are much less likely to be the cause of death than another tool: cars. And people drive more, drive longer, drive faster and drive drunker in rural areas than in urban ones, where they can walk or take public transit.
Cars by themselves don't cause injury or death. It take a human element to add to them for that to happen. We could go back to horses and reduce the the injury/death rate, but even then there will be some who fall off the horse drunk and die.
People are stupid and they die sometimes because of it. Stop trying to save the stupid people and clean up the gene pool. Then watch the statics change.
That middle paragraph sure contains a whole lot of simple common sense.
One could replace that first word of the paragraph with almost anything, like Guns, Knives, Forks, Wrenches, Ball peen hammers, Thoughts, Political doctrines, College Professors, the list could go on and on and on and on.
All things considered about the supposed "study" in question. I'd still rather take my chances in a rural area when everything falls through the floor. Dodging a drunk driver here and there might be easier than fending off hordes of ticked off and hungry "neighbors" in the city.
Did you make a mistake, or are you a race baiter. " Rural white crime wave out of control" is the thread title but the link doesn't mention or refer to white
Perhaps the assumption is that only white people live in rural areas.
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Anybody who's ever driven in Atlanta knows why auto accidents happen more in the rural areas than the city. You couldn't kill yourself in an auto accident if you were trying during rush on the perimeter. One-mile-an-hour isn't fast enough....
Seriously... Accidental death or not... I'll still take my place in the country over city any day......
So the OP posts an old article about people dying in rural areas from car accidents and lack of nearby hospitals and, to get people to click and waste their time reading, calls it a "rural white crime wave out of control". Here's a case where mods could actually do some good by closing a thread and penalizing the person who started it.
So the OP posts an old article about people dying in rural areas from car accidents and lack of nearby hospitals and, to get people to click and waste their time reading, calls it a "rural white crime wave out of control". Here's a case where mods could actually do some good by closing a thread and penalizing the person who started it.
Nah, makes for an interesting thread. It deals with just how bad and how risky crime is in urban areas, and demonstrates that even though people actually get hurt DOING something in rural areas, just as many still die in urban ones. One of 100 reasons I'll stay out of any dirty, crowded city whenever I can.
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Rural white crime wave out of control
