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[Valhelm]

Rampant inequality among other things.

How does this lead to violent crime?

 

[videogamer]

Very true. People tend to forget how big America is (we also have more problems than some people abroad might think).

America's population size does not explain a higher per capita homicide rate.

 

[Tokubetsu]

love dem gun sounds

You can't just say this without linking the song.

 

[Tesseract]

too many mixed signals man. 24, breaking bad, the wire

no villain thinks they're the villain ~ splinter

 

[I'm an expert]

Minorities. As soon as they all leave, America (that's right the whole continent) will become a Utopia.

Agreed. When can white people leave?

 

[Ferrio]

How does this lead to violent crime?

When the system shafts you, you go outside the system.

 

[Trouble]

They serve all day if you make em an offer they can't refuse

 

[Cameron122]

Yesssss

 

[Angelus Errare]

I blame it on Marilyn Manson. And look where it's at, middle America now it's a tragedy now, it's so sad to see.

 

[Kwixotik]

We have really poor poor people and a fucked up education system.

 

[DonasaurusRex]

Thanks Obama

 

[J10]

Yeah, I blame white people.

 

[Jacob]

How does this lead to violent crime?

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=inequality+and+crime

 

[LiK]

Mexico has way more murders than the US.

 

[shadyspace]

Mexico has way more murders than the US.

Go us.

 

[ReturnOfTheRAT]

Lack of education.
Boredom.
Financial inequality.
Ease of access to weapons.

People don't value life and the people that breath the same air as them.

 

[Ekdrm2d1]

Not enough guns.

 

[xbhaskarx]

We're not more violent than people in other countries, we're just better shots.

 

[Oriel]

A variety of reasons.

1. Easy access to high powered weapons such as military style assault rifles.
2. Greater inequalities in society. A culture of every person for themselves where social protection is considered equal to communism.
3. The pervasive influence of the far right on national politics.
4. The devastating effects of Reaganomics and the Clinton era repeal of Glass-Steagall.

 

[lastflowers]

I personally attribute it to gun control. Only attempted murder would happen if we all had guns

 

[evil solrac v3.0]

Reading the thread about that execution in Ohio I caught something that left me almost speechless. Apparently, only in that state the average murder is around 520 each year.
And that's from murders. Homicides are probably waaaaaay higher than that.
I'm from a country with less than 80 homicides last year. When a murder like those you can read about here so often happens, with rape involved, it becomes an absolute national sensation for months.
So why the US has so many murders compared to the rest of the Western world? I remember that when I was studying Psychology and Agression, the most common explanation was that guns by their own nature make the act of murder easier than, say, killing someone with a knife, and not because the physical effort required by the later, but because guns help to establish emotional distance towards the target since, well, you fire the gun from a distance and things don't become close and personal most of the time.
But I think something is missing here, because it's not only murder, it seems that other serious crimes like car theft or assault are more common as well. So, what's the explanation you guys have for this?.

1. murder and homicide are the same thing...
2. most gun murder (almost all) are committed with a handgun and are done at very close range.enough to see the white of their eyes as they say. so, no guns don't make less detached.
3. it's a country of over 300 million with immigrants from all over the world.
4. massive consumption society.
5. no investment in trying to fix the ghettoes. will never happen whioch means bad schools, bad education leads to high crime etc.

No social safety net.

A culture that glorifies violence and narcissism.

No gun control.

gun control or gun ban? 'cause control has done jack shit.

Hahaha, you really think that rap music leads to more murders?

you honestly have no sense of humor, i'd have checked out if I were you.

 

[James93]

Gangs, putting a bunch of people below the poverty level all together in massive housing projects or cities. Drugs, ease of getting guns. America loves guns, drugs, and alcohol. The three big things that drive violence.

 

[Sutton Dagger]

I blame it on Marilyn Manson. And look where it's at, middle America now it's a tragedy now, it's so sad to see.

 

[Oriel]

Very true. People tend to forget how big America is (we also have more problems than some people abroad might think).

Per capita the US has a far higher homicide rate than Europe.

 

[rkn]

Gotta crack a few eggs to make an omelette

 

[Boudica]

Murders are homicides. And they been trending down for the last 25+ years. We have a higher population and diversity than most countries.

Ohio has a population of about 11 million. Canada has a population of almost 35 million.

Ohio- 520 murders last year
Canada- 543 murders in 2012

Higher population and diversity (Canadian major cities are some of the most diverse regions in the world) doesn't explain this.

 

[I'm an expert]

Gotta crack a few eggs to make an omelette

Aww yiss dat doggy dogg world

 

[Citizen Mane]

Brb merking a fool.

 

[Barbacoatl]

Mexico has way more murders than the US.

Source? Numbers would be nice.

At least Mexico City is much safer than Chicago.

 

[evil solrac v3.0]

A variety of reasons.

1. Easy access to high powered weapons such as military style assault rifles.
2. Greater inequalities in society. A culture of every person for themselves where social protection is considered equal to communism.
3. The pervasive influence of the far right on national politics.
4. The devastating effects of Reaganomics and the Clinton era repeal of Glass-Steagall.

no.

 

[Zen_Arcade]

Some serve it all errry day.

Some of us don't live in this paradise Azzurri. Our lives are a little more empty because of it.

 

[Tesseract]

Gotta crack a few eggs to make an omelette

ergo proximal

 

[Mammoth Jones]

A shitty combination of:

Poor education
Rampant poverty
Shitty parenting
Lack of healthcare (Specifically lack of comprehensive mental health services)
Gang activity (See Poor education/rampant poverty)

 

[Rebel Leader]

Books

 

[Oriel]

no.

Yes.

www.bushmaster.com/index.asp

 

[I'm an expert]

A shitty combination of:

Poor education
Rampant poverty
Shitty parenting
Lack of healthcare (Specifically lack of comprehensive mental health services)
Gang activity (See Poor education/rampant poverty)

In my opinion, it's none of these.

 

[DrFunk]

This is the kinda thread when the op doesn't post anymore, isn't it

 

[ViewtifulJC]

Slayven race-baiting

 

[I'm an expert]

This is the kinda thread when the op doesn't post anymore, isn't it

Lol seriously, least favorite thread type.

 

[LiamA]

Yes.

www.bushmaster.com/index.asp

No.

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/tables/10tbl20.xls

 

[Philia]

Not one post about the media? They have a hand in this too. In impoverished countries, if it goes unreported, it didn't happen. :\

 

[Anion]

Larger population? (than your country)

 

[Razgriz-Specter]

Very true. People tend to forget how big America is (we also have more problems than some people abroad might think).

Yeah some people don't realize that we have the population of most of the major European countries combined.

 

[LiamA]

But seriously, war on drugs, poor education, lack of jobs, how sucky it is to be poor here, war on drugs, and war on drugs.

 

[entremet]

A shitty combination of:

Poor education
Rampant poverty
Shitty parenting
Lack of healthcare (Specifically lack of comprehensive mental health services)
Gang activity (See Poor education/rampant poverty)

The gang activity is also fostered by high incarceration rates. It feeds on itself.

 

[Angelus Errare]

Also if we're blaming hip-hop, we definitely need to blame country and rock.

 

[Oriel]

No.

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/tables/10tbl20.xls

Yes. The M4 Carbine is available to both civilians in the US as well as national armies.

 

[Mammoth Jones]

In my opinion, it's none of these.

I respect your opinion despite the fact that you disagree.

Yes. The M4 Carbine is available to both civilians in the US as well as national armies.

Are the majority of murders committed with the M4 Carbine? I think that's the salient issue.

 

[Winterfang]

Puerto Rico has 800+ murders a year and that's an island so small you can get from coast to coast in less that 3 hours.

 

[LiamA]

Yes. The M4 Carbine is available to both civilians in the US as well as national armies.

The point is that relatively few murders are committed with rifles period, much less scary rifles.