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07-23-2012, 04:02 PM | #101 (permalink) | |
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No I don't agree with guns at all, I'm just looking at the correlation between crime and economics. The two often go hand in hand, but in the case of the USA that doesn't seem to hold true and its something of exception. My only take on it, is that the USA was built up on guns and superior armaments over the indigenous population and gun culture developed and has been present ever since. In Europe we've never had the same historical parallels, so gun culture is totally alien to us.
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07-23-2012, 04:09 PM | #102 (permalink) | |
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07-23-2012, 04:14 PM | #103 (permalink) | |
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And like I was talking about earlier, in an ironic way being unarmed is safer in a lot of situations as opposed to being armed. When you get tragedies like this that happen, you realize that people had the opportunity to carry a concealed weapon, yet still didn't, so the whole supposed positive of concealed gun laws doesn't seem to be very practical in these types of situations anyways. |
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07-23-2012, 04:20 PM | #104 (permalink) | |
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07-23-2012, 05:01 PM | #105 (permalink) | ||
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You mean some gun crimes are not capital (I guess that means state) crimes in some states?
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07-23-2012, 06:17 PM | #108 (permalink) |
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"Capital" means they are punishable by death. What I'm saying is that most gun crimes (i.e. possession of an illegal firearm, robbing someone at gunpoint, etc.), even in states with the death penalty, are not punishable by execution. That's why I don't really see the connection to whether or not the state has the death penalty, which is generally reserved for murder, gun or no gun.
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07-24-2012, 11:04 AM | #109 (permalink) | ||
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If a person murders somebody with a firearm, are the statistics for this type of crime higher, lower or more or less the same in a state that has the death penalty? I'm just trying to fathom if capital punishment is any type of deterrent here. I know murder is murder gun or no gun, but as we're talking gun crime here, I'm just restricting it to guns.
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07-24-2012, 11:28 AM | #110 (permalink) | |
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The ten states with the highest rate of gun murder are:
The ten states with the lowest rate of gun murder are:
States without the death penalty are marked with asterisks. Not too much of a pattern here, although if you look at the top five in each category, you notice that all of the worst states for gun murder have the death penalty, while only 2 out of 5 of the best states have it. It should also be pointed out that, even though New Hampshire has the death penalty on the books, they haven't executed anyone in over 35 years. Similarly, Wyoming hasn't executed anyone in 20 years. (death penalty source, murder by gun source) |
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