Out of Pod Experience

In addition, here is a paper on the Banning of Firearms in Australia back in 1996.

80% drop in Firearms suicide rate, and homicides by 59%, and no mass killings since the ban.

Allow me to poke a rather large hole in that argument.

The UK has more freedom than you do while having some of the most restrictive gun laws in the world. Gangs even have timeshares on handguns in this country (I **** you not).

Western Europe ethnically homogeneous? You're having a giggle. We draw upon the same pool of immigrants as the US, namely everybody else in the world. While individual western European populations may be smaller, collectively there's 500(ish) million people of all creeds and colours spread over 27 countries (or states), by comparison I believe the US has 315(ish) million in a far larger area although split into 50 states.

TL;DR Europe might be smaller, but it has a larger population, a lower death by firearms rate and is as ethnically diverse, if not more so, than the United States.

I didn't want to post in this trash-heap of a thread that is going to be locked any moment now, but............

That gave me a good giggle too. BUT, from my experience, especially the 17 years I lived in San Fran, I believe America and Western Europe are both about equal in ethnic diversity.

Even my hometown of 5,000 in rural Arkansas is about 1/4 Hispanic and has a rather 'large' Vietnamese population, 2 populations that did not even exist there AT ALL when we moved away in 1976.

So according to you, more diverse countries are more violent (proof?), larger countries are more violent (proof?) and more populated countries are more violent (proof?).

And yet there are countries more diverse than the USA but less violent, larger than the USA but less violent, and more populated than the USA but less violent.

Here you have an argument you won't be able to deny: provided any ratio of incidents per gun, more guns mean more incidents.

That's the wall were "weepons for safety" crashes like a barrel of bricks.

And don't even get me started on the arms race between agressors and soft targets -that is, the more you harden a "soft" target, the weakest will be the next soft target attacked. FAI: Harden colleges, target will be primary schools. Harden primary schools, target become kindergartens. Harden kindergartens, the target become unarmed children. Harden children, the target become younger children. Harden younger children, the target become toddlers. Harden toddlers... uh-oh. You can't sensibly arm a toddler, can you? And yet the guy about to splatter you newborn's brains on the wall won't need to be doing anything ilegal until he actually pulls the trigger.

Former Yugoslavia, small country, small population, 6 main native ethnicities (up to 10).

Spain, average country, average population, 4 main native ethnicities (up to 6).

China, very large country, massive population, 47 main native ethnicities (up to 213).

From the data above, pick the more violent country, please.

What makes the USA unique it's their disproportionate (and to foreigners, crazy) love for weapons. Not diversity, not size, and not population.

I was ignoring size, a better description would be overpopulation. I was going for nations or former nations with a pluraity of ethnicities, and in some cases a distinct major group (Russians in the USSR, Anglos in the US and Serbs in the Yugoslavia). Check the percentages of the Han within China, and how they repopulated Tibet with the preffered ethnic group. Similar story in the other provinces, the trend is to change the demographics to absolute within China as a whole, and in the provinces.

There isn't much resemblance between Hispanics and Vietnamese. Kinda easy to pick who's who,tbh.

Posting in yet another "gun control" thread before yet another lock.

Why are you so obsessed with guns that the very same topic has to come up here about every week?

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."


Well done that man.