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0 pointsjlawson6y ago0 comments

>White men are around 35%, so it's weird that this very vocal and pearl-clutching portion of the population commits so many murders per capita.

Men commit more murders than women (in all places and times).

In America, whites commit less murders than their population percentage. This is true overall, and amongst men only.

You seem to support holding suspicion of entire identity groups on the basis of crime statistics. If so, you must really hate young black men; they're 4% of the population and commit >50% of American murders. Do you? If not, why the obsessive focus on 'white men'?

>Do you feel like if the brave men and women of the American military were ordered to take your guns, they'd do so?

I asked you to make your point and you insist again on rhetorical questions with some kind of implied but unspoken point behind them. But sure, I'll answer: Given that I'm not American and I don't own any guns, it's kind of a bizarre question. If they were ordered to invade my country, I think they would. But that'd be a very different world.

>What have you specifically said that you think I'm not thinking about?

Redefining safety as freedom is absurd.

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tomlockwood6y ago

> Men commit more murders than women (in all places and times).

I know, 90-95% in fact! Which makes it interesting that so often people focus on racial issues, like the plight of white south african farmers, when there's a wayyyy larger correlation with violence of all kinds, and gender. An individual gun owner's reason for owning a gun may focus on some abstract interracial political violence, when they're much more likely to be murderer by a young, poor, man.

> Redefining safety as freedom is absurd.

If some level of safety is required in order to live, freedom is contingent on safety. When you're dead you can't own any guns.