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  2. I don't use Wikipedia as a source of fact, anyone can edit that site.


    Originally posted by Erikvloedgraven:[..]


    Didn't mean like a theocracy, but that the US is still seen as some sort of a new Israel by a lot of people (I'm not saying it's stated in your constitution). That's the reason a lot of catholics from England and Ireland moved there.
    But the fact is, there is no country in Western Europe where someone can't be elected if he's not a Christian. In the US a candidate has to state he's a Christian to even have a chance, which is very weird given that most Western countries are going through a process of secularization


    I stopped reading after you said but because the US is not a theocracy. No ifs, ands, or in your case, buts.

    That's also not entirely true in the US:
    http://www.pewforum.org/Government/Faith-on-the-Hill--The-Religious-Composition-of-the-112th-Congress.aspx
  5. Its worth noting, that high crime in the U.S. tends to be concentrated in certain areas. For instance, there have been more murders in Chicago in the last 10 years, than American combat deaths in Afghanistan. In Michigan where I live outside of Detroit, Flint, and Saginaw, crime is quite low, and we have fairly loose gun laws.
  6. Intrestinly the high crime tends to be in the areas with the most restrictive gun laws. california, chicago, D.C., new york.
  7. Originally posted by wtshnnfb01:Its worth noting, that high crime in the U.S. tends to be concentrated in certain areas. For instance, there have been more murders in Chicago in the last 10 years, than American combat deaths in Afghanistan. In Michigan where I live outside of Detroit, Flint, and Saginaw, crime is quite low, and we have fairly loose gun laws.

    It's the same in all countries (in Sweden Malmö is the trouble city). You can still compare stats and see that especially murder is unusually high in the US if you compare it to other countries on the same level. West European nations are usually around 1 per 100,000... the US is at 5.
  8. I think it's often the big cities in the US that has stricter gun control? Because big cities are usually more left than the countryside. It's not strange that there's more criminality in big cities.
  9. Were better than Russia.
  12. Thats my tactic. Whenever you feel your country is fucked, politically, economically, or morally, look at Russia.
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