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> Most people who are into doing criminal things actually have guns here in Europe. Speaking for the western part: no they don't. No even close to the majority
by _pmf_ 10y ago
> Most people who are into doing criminal things actually have guns here in Europe.
Speaking for the western part: no they don't. No even close to the majority of criminals have guns (I don't dispute that they have easy access, though). You'll be hard pressed to find street robberies at gun point in Germany, France and the northern countries.
- vetinari 10y agoYou'll be hard pressed to find street robberies at gun point in Eastern Europe too. Subjectively, it is much safer to walk on the streets of Warsaw, than Berlin.
- _pmf_ 10y agoBeen in Warsaw one night, live in German city; can confirm.
- bflesch 10y agoOh shut up. I live in Cologne, there are gang/biker shootings and robberies with guns every week. Police is always too late.
- sametmax 10y agoMy brother live in frankfurt and even in the worst part in the city, with people injecting heroin in the street, you never get even bothered by anybody. In France you hear about guns, but I lived in 8 different cities there, and I never been near any gun attack. None of my friends or relatives either. If you have gun here, people look at you in a strange way. Everytime me or my bro got in trouble, it was fist fighting. I got a knife once. Some of my friends got messed up. Fist again. In france, the UK, germany, Italy and spain. I don't say there are no guns. I'm saying that it's not even of the same scale of occurrences than in the US.