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This is out of another world for me. Couldn't imagine living in South America or whatever third world country this happens in. Oh, wait...

• lucb1e 11y ago
  I suppose you mean because there it's easy or even legal to have a gun, like in the USA?
  • rplnt 11y ago
    I don't think number of muggings in general has much to do with how easy is to obtain a gun. The root causes are probably unrelated. But how easy is to obtain a gun definitely correlates with relative increase in muggings with a gun. That being said, I don't think (il)legality would have a direct impact on how easy is to obtain a gun in certain parts of the world (say Brasil).
    • wtbob 11y ago
      > The root causes are probably unrelated. But how easy is to obtain a gun definitely correlates with relative increase in muggings with a gun. That's true. I also think that it's likely that a gun is a better defence against mugging than is, say, a knife or one's fists. A small woman can shoot a large attacker, when her fists aren't going to be much use and a knife wound may not stop him until after he's already killed her. Having a gun doesn't mean that one will be able to draw and use it, of course; indeed, one may just end up giving one's attackers another weapon. But I think the odds are better armed than unarmed.
• morgante 11y ago
  There's no country on earth without any muggings. It's not exactly common in the US though.
  • rplnt 11y ago
    There's a difference between mugging with a knife and with a pistol. Not because knife isn't deadly (it very much is), but because it's much harder (physically, psychologically and even time-wise) for the perpetrator to deliver the threat in case anything happens.