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Originally posted by seretogis
People who try to compare small European countries to the US are shooting themselves in the foot. Guess what? We're not England. Instead of comparing us to England, take a look at the violent crime rate of our own states which have varying degrees of gun control laws on the books. There's really no need to go outside of the US for proof that gun control simply does not work.
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"Yeah, uh...I'm going to have to go ahead and sort of disagree with you there." I agree that we can't just compare ourselves to England, but to say that we only need to look at different parts of the US sort of ignores the fact that varying areas of the US are as different from each other than the US is different from England. Surely you can't compare the poorer areas of a major city to, say, quiet New England towns?
Note I'm not even arguing gun control.