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Originally posted by Kadath
"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.
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First, <3 Office Space references <3
Secondly, while there is a lot of variance as far as population, crime rate, and city policy goes, by and large cities in the US are more comparable to each other than they are to cities of other countries. A quiet New England town is more similar to North Minneapolis than it is to London or Amsterdam, in regards to gun policy.