RE: Did guns or vaccines save more lives in 2021?
January 10, 2023 at 12:07 pm
(This post was last modified: January 10, 2023 at 12:15 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The USA isn't a high crime country. We have a relatively large number of homicides (though no us city tops that list, either)...while other categories of crime are highly suppressed. On the whole, a us metropolis is a less safe place than Croatia, and a us metropolis has about as many people as the entire nation of Croatia in a much smaller space (excluding new york, which is twice the pop of your country crammed into 300 square miles to croatias 22k?). If we were looking at comparable cities then we'd be looking at Zagreb and...probably, DC. DC being one of the safest cities on earth..as I believe Zagreb also has some claim to?
At any rate, us gun ownership stats are a double edged sword. They certainly don't seem to indicate that guns are making us safer..but they don't seem to indicate that guns are making us less safe, either. We're chiefly concerned about a profound spike in what amounts to a rounding error in overall violent crime, and for good reason. It's an outlier all it's own, on multiple fronts. It's a crime committed overwhelmingly by rural or suburban perps, often wealthy, largely majority demographics. It doesn't follow the same trends that crime in a us metropolis does, for example.
At any rate, us gun ownership stats are a double edged sword. They certainly don't seem to indicate that guns are making us safer..but they don't seem to indicate that guns are making us less safe, either. We're chiefly concerned about a profound spike in what amounts to a rounding error in overall violent crime, and for good reason. It's an outlier all it's own, on multiple fronts. It's a crime committed overwhelmingly by rural or suburban perps, often wealthy, largely majority demographics. It doesn't follow the same trends that crime in a us metropolis does, for example.
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