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Which part? Czechs have a half-millennia old, entrenched gun tradition, with amusingly even stronger protection on gun ownership than even Americans. https://e
by inter_netuser 5y ago
Which part?
Czechs have a half-millennia old, entrenched gun tradition, with amusingly even stronger protection on gun ownership than even Americans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_law_in_the_Czech_Republic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_law_in_the_Czech_Republic
The only times this was suspended was during German and Russian occupations.
Homicide rates is easily accessible public information, from various sources including world bank and the UN?
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/VC.IHR.PSRC.P5 https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/VC.IHR.PSRC.P5
Year by year chart: https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/CZE/czech-republic/crime-rate-statistics https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/CZE/czech-republic/cri...
Their gun culture is certainly an outlier in Europe, compared to even the Swiss. Very permissive, and yet murder rates are essentially on par with entirely gun-less Asian countries vaunted for their "safety".
- zepto 5y agoThis is great - such a strong datapoint that culture is the factor and not guns. Similar to the datapoint Japan provides about suicides.