in London, you get in a fight and you get a broken arm or a broken nose
in New York City, you get in a fight and you get a body bag
whenever the homicide rate of the USA is compared to other Western countries, NRA propagandized morons change the subject and counter about *violence*. as if *violence* is the same as *homicide*
frankly, i'd love the violence rate in the usa to go up and the homicide rate to go down. because a broken arm is not a body bag
and you get that with better gun control
but too many of my fellow americans of the low iq and propagandized variety believe for some fucking ignorant reason that every little misunderstanding or conflict has to escalate to death
and that's exactly what we get:
http://www.conferenceboard.ca/...
rape? robbery? violence? about the same as our social and economic peers
easy guns do not protect us from those things. they just mean tens of thousands of extra body bags every year
if anything, owning a gun increases the chance of mortality for you and your loved ones, because you've raised the stakes in every little act of confusion/ misunderstanding/ anger/ accident/ etc. to death