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NoBimbosAllowed -> RE: One reason an American might wish to own a gun... (10/28/2013 5:19:27 PM)
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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer
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This wriggling cracks me up. [:D]
OK, here we go again:
I haven't seen anybody comment on how spectacularly low in rape rates the USA is as a result of the prevalence of gun ownership - as opposed to more primitive and less enlightened and civilised countries in, say, Europe, where gun ownership is much lower. Why is this?
I'm sure American gun fans here will be only too eager to show how gun-ownership in their excellent society has led to a relatively minute rate of rapes as compared to other First World countries. Why have they been too modest to demonstrate this fact so far?
This comment is less than fair, because the USA is more like Europe with a collection of smallish countries conjoined. In the USA, those country-lets are 'states'. They have separate laws for everything.
When you look at a country such as Holland, you can practically fit it INSIDE Texas. regulating what makes someone WANT a gin, and helping them develop into a person whom would never want to USE a gun, is EASY in a place that is less than 15% of the size of the continental USA. And in such a European nation, for the most part, the cultures and laws will be the same. Swedish Laws are Swedish Laws, and different to laws elsewhere. So you can take a place like Holland and in 20 years you can make a noteworthy, PRAGMATIC change. Asking the USA to do that nationwide is as unreasonable and half-assed, half-cocked an idea as expecting Belarus (still ruled by a despot) and the Oligarchies of Russia to suddenly become equally civilized and less assault-inclined because Holland decided to be so, to be more noble.
less assault does not come by dint of more gun control, it comes by dint of the fact that you can take a country like Holland or Finland or Iceland, and due to their TINY size, and the fact that their cultures are relatively uniform, you can effect an overall society which is more pro-empathy and intellect, and less 'rah rah, go team Meathead'.
before guns existed, the root of most violence is Meatheads. Take away the guns, you will still have violence, mostly always initiated by MEATHEADS.
If you provide an incentive to a populace to think more, bash less, read more, "Johnny Knoxville less", you will reduce the violence. The gun ownership and sexual assaults are symptoms of the Elephant In The Room Disease, and that disease has a name: MEATHEADS.
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