He's right
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Just an observation...
The community in which I live is rural and about 3000 people or so. It runs the gamut from poor as church mice to a lady that's been a Hollywood actress (and did pretty well at it). But most of us are just middle class, blue collar and white collar. In the last thirty years, we've had two murders, one of which was done with a firearm (rifle).
Not only is this the South, with its high level of gun ownership, this is a community with a lot of hunters. It's a community with a good many people who serve in the National Guard. The Pew folks say gun ownership in the south is 36% of all households having at least one gun. I would say in my neck of the woods, it would be closer to 36% of households that own two or more.
Yet, gun violence is pretty rare. Most of the crime we have is the rural scourge of drugs and the theft that goes with it. Or it's the usual domestic fights and squabbles. But folks aren't shooting each other.
Don't get me wrong, something bad only takes one nut and it can happen anywhere. But there are more people shot in Chicago or New Orleans on a Saturday, than have been shot here in fifty years. In a community awash in handguns, shotguns and rifles.
@Jolly said in He's right:
But there are more people shot in Chicago or New Orleans on a Saturday, than have been shot here in fifty years. In a community awash in handguns, shotguns and rifles.
In the US, population density has a lot to do with it. A lot of people living close together gives more opportunities for small disagreements to become big disagreements.
But again, this is worse in the US than other places, rural or cities. There are large cities all over the world which have much less gun violence than in the US.
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If you took the gang ridden inner city murders out of it our country’s gun murder rate would be a small fraction of what it is now. The problem is not the guns but that culture where violence is the way problems are solved. No law will change that. No one wants to talk about it, but it’s the truth.
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If you took the gang ridden inner city murders out of it our country’s gun murder rate would be a small fraction of what it is now. The problem is not the guns but that culture where violence is the way problems are solved. No law will change that. No one wants to talk about it, but it’s the truth.
