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You may be surprised to learn different states have different gun laws and indeed different rates of gun violence. Even more surprisingly, the two things may no
by umvi 8y ago
You may be surprised to learn different states have different gun laws and indeed different rates of gun violence. Even more surprisingly, the two things may not even be correlated. Also, gun numbers are often misleading by including suicides in death counts. If you are not a suicidal person, you have an extremely low chance of dying at the hands of a gun in the US.
- ticmasta 8y agoKind of sounds like you're arguing their "terrible but not an epidemic". It would be nice to live in a society where you didn't have to dig into the stats to determine how much gun violence is actually happening, and instead the answer was little to none.
- mercutio2 8y agoAre you really so much happier bleeding out after receiving a knife wound than a gunshot wound? Guns are extremely effective for suicide; while there’s a pretty good argument that removing suicide vectors actually reduces suicide (and doesn’t just displace it into substitutes), I think it’s a pretty reasonable point that battery and other violence are what you should really be dispatching on. Unfortunately, with all that said, the US in aggregate is slightly more violent than a lot of other industrialized cultures, so I can’t say the concerns about visiting the US are completely unwarranted. But I do get suspicious when people criticizing the US for its violence (as potential tourists) are then happy to visit less developed nations, which are typically significantly more violent per capita.
- macca321 8y agoYes but you still need to moderate your behaviour (and experience fear) around the police in a way not necessary in other countries.
- drb91 8y agoYes, this is unfortunately a reality.