• guojing@lemmy.ml
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      2 years ago

      Luckily that kind of thing doesnt really happen in civilized countries.

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            2 years ago

            Not everyone lives in one though. I can’t fucking make thousands of dollars appear out of nowhere and move out of the US. This is where I was born, and it’s where I intend to die.

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              2 years ago

              He’s also wrong. In many “civilized” (which btw every time I say that I feel icky, it feels racist) countries most burglaries are “hot” burglaries, in which the burgaler breaks in while the person is home. This of course carries with it a greater risk of violence as opposed to America where for “some reason” most of our burglaries are when the person is not home. There are also around, and I am going to use the LOWEST estimate from the harvard study that is used to “debunk” defensive gun use, 100,000 defensive gun uses in the country yearly. Compared to 60k gun deaths, 12k of those being homicide, 100k>60k>12k.