Giusi wrote:
>
> Omelet wrote:
> > In article >,
> > Giusi > wrote:
> >
> >> Omelet wrote:
> >>> In article >,
> >>> Giusi > wrote:
> >>>> I believe that the effort ought to be to make the streets safe for
> >>>> ordinary people, not turn every ordinary person into Dirty Harry. It can
> >>>> be done, because most of the world is safer than the US. You'd have to
> >>>> ask yourself why.
> >>> Since when?
> >>>
> >>> You have to make the criminals afraid to attack you.
> >> You have to make fewer criminal and violent people.
> >
> > All it takes is one.
> >
> > There are no countries that are Utopia.
>
> That is begging the entire subject, let alone the question. No, no
> place is Utopia. I did not say it was. But the violent crime rate in
> the US is a much higher percentage than most countries. Countries with
> wars and tribal fights aside, I believe the US is pretty much tops.
> Someone published the statistics a while back with a link and I looked
> at the figures many different ways and violent crime is just a scourge
> in the US. That's what you need to figure out. Babies are being born
> innocent and growing up to be monsters at a rate that outdoes other
> countries by a great deal. Arming every citizen won't solve a thing.
>
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Arming citizens aids in removing the criminals from the gene pool and
preventing repeat offenses.