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Since when are shootings in Baltimore news? When you can get off the freeway there without ten squeegee kids storming your windshield, that will be very newsworthy.
The fallacy with mentioning Japan as a safe country with tough gun control is that it ignores the existence of very restrictive gun laws in other countries - countries which are still highly dangerous and fraught with violent crime.
Brazil, Mexico, and Russia have very stringent legislation on firearms ownership. Yet, minus those who are in the gang-ridden underclass areas of America, the average person living in the U.S. has a far lesser chance of being struck by gunfire from a civilian wielding it illegally than in these countries.
The same can be seen right in America's northern backyard.
The Canadian province of Quebec and the U.S. state of New Hampshire share an international border. The former has tough gun laws; the latter has some of the least restrictive gun laws in America.
Why is it however that NH has very little gun-related crime? What is it that happens once one leaves Canada and crosses into the U.S., as one goes from a jurisdiction with tough gun laws to another with lax ones?
Laws have their place, but the culture, the mentality, and the willingness of people to be law-abiding play a role. Japan has historically been a country whose culture included principles of obligation, honor, and abiding by the rules. This is also why Japan's disasters, such as the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, are followed by very little looting. Safes which suddenly dot landscapes are left untouched.
This stems from Japanese culture. Now try that in Haiti or Nigeria or Romania. See what happens.
If you don’t want to stop and frisk potential suspects, they will continue terrorizing this country.
There was a shooting in times square the other day where 3 people were injured, how embarrassing for the worlds richest country to have a war zone in a tourist hot spot.
This is the only real way to effectively reduce the number of illegal firearms in the many inner city hot spots across the country. It will never happen though, because it is a breach of ones rights. So, instead, the politicians would rather restrict the law abiding individuals rights with firearms restrictions/ bans, which do nothing to stop the violence.
This has all been engineered by the Soros types from day one. They aren't stupid; they know exactly what they are doing. Not stupid, just evil. I'm sure they are laughing at all this as they sit in their palaces sipping brandy... watching the anthill self-destruct.
This is the result of guns in the hands of people who shouldn’t have guns. Hopefully the new administration can effect some change in this regard. None of these incidents have anything to do with politics and everything to do with the proliferation of guns.
Well, just like from 2008-10 you have the house-senate-pres under Mono-party control....so better dust off your big box of excuses.
Guns are proliferated all over the US and my home state of Illinois. If the problem is proliferation, then why is the rural part of IL vastly lower in gun violence and more along the lines of Canada?
What laws would you propose to address the most prevalent form of gun violence which is gang\drug related and concentrated in US urban centers? Or is your intent to just ban something *scary looking* that is involved in some tiny % of crimes and declare victory in a flurry of political showmanship?
It’s simple, when people feel prosperous, like under Trump, they don’t want to shoot each other...
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