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  2. 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.
  3. Intrestinly the high crime tends to be in the areas with the most restrictive gun laws. california, chicago, D.C., new york.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Were better than Russia.
  9. Thats my tactic. Whenever you feel your country is fucked, politically, economically, or morally, look at Russia.

  10. And then don't try to improve you country? Doesn't really make sense Russia is fucked up though.

    If you want to compare your country to a country further to the left... a Nordic country would be a better option.
  11. Debt of Russia is much lower and growth was 4.5 % in 2011 Of course economically they are still behind, but much more 'healthy' at the moment.

    And if I look how the USA election take place (the amount of lobbyists (guns, tabacco, etc) and all the money being paid by them), I am not actually sure its more fair than the Russian version.

    The only country doing democracy well is Swiss imho.
  12. Originally posted by Risto:Debt of Russia is much lower and growth was 4.5 % in 2011 Of course economically they are still behind, but much more 'healthy' at the moment.

    And if I look how the USA election take place (the amount of lobbyists (guns, tabacco, etc) and all the money being paid by them), I am not actually sure its more fair than the Russian version.

    The only country doing democracy well is Swiss imho.

    Well... cheating is worse than trying to convince people of something.
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