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Originally Posted by clive milne
Here's the correlation between gun ownership and homicide rate:
http://crimepreventionresearchcenter...31-3.17-AM.png
Switzerland is worth contemplating... second highest gun ownership rate in the world and probably highest if you include the guns that it's citizens (who do national service) store at home. The survey excludes these guns because "technically" they are owned by the Swiss government. Basically, anyone and everyone in that country has easy access to a firearm. That society has one of the lowest rates of violent crime in the world. The number of police officers in the US is 270 times higher (per capita) than in Switzerland.
There is however a strong correlation between social injustice and violence.
Watch the monkey - grape experiment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meiU6TxysCg
Here's a good TED talk about the root cause of dysfunction in society:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ7LzE3u7Bw
It's pretty much down to a reaction against injustice, inequality and corruption.
This is an insight in to the bald faced, blazing hypocrisy of the US government and their support for cold blooded murderers ... when it suits a politically convenient narrative :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaTKDMYOBOU |
You post some amazing stuff Clive, - always interesting imo. Thanks for sharing
