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Originally Posted by MaDalton
so more guns = more crime?
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I think the difference is a racial/societal one.
If you took the inner city black youths from the U.S. and shipped them all to Europe, then you would see what would happen.
It's a sad situation for sure. The govt. here has tried to address it by throwing money at it since the 1960's. But it can't change the cultural environment that a lot of black kids in big cities grow up in.
A lot of them grow up romanticizing being a gangbanger. And then when they become teenagers...that's what they do.
I've seen statistics on guns and violence...and the vast majority is "black on black" violence and it's done with handguns.
Take away the guns, and those gangs will use knives, chains, etc.
They are hellbent on killing each other.
I personally think that a lot of it has to do with the "Drug War".
It's just like the Alcohol Prohibition that brought all that violence down then and made gangs incredibly rich.
Only this time, instead of Italian mobsters in Chicago...it's black youth in Chicago.
Seems we never learn from history.