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From: zen cycle <funkmasterxx@hotmail.com>
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On 7/27/2024 8:50 AM, AMuzi wrote:
> On 7/27/2024 5:56 AM, zen cycle wrote:
>> On 7/26/2024 7:27 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>> On 7/26/2024 4:56 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 26 Jul 2024 15:01:17 -0400, Frank Krygowski
>>>> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 7/26/2024 1:06 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, 26 Jul 2024 11:34:01 -0400, Frank Krygowski
>>>>>> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 7/26/2024 9:50 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I believe that modern small firearms have made the USA a safer 
>>>>>>>> place
>>>>>>>> to live. What other way does a 80 year old woman who lives alone to
>>>>>>>> protect herself. Before small firearms, anyone who was unable to 
>>>>>>>> swing
>>>>>>>> a sword, a lance, or a fist was vulnerable.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> IIRC, comparative data shows citizens in Canada, Britain, France,
>>>>>>> Germany, etc. etc. etc. are far safer in their homes.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If that's true, and I'm not convinced that it is, it's most likely
>>>>>> because the USA has more criminals, as verified by the number of
>>>>>> prisons in the USA. Therefore, guns provide protection from them.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The reasons we have more criminals is another argument I won't get in
>>>>>> to right now.
>>>>>
>>>>> :-)  A cowardly retreat!
>>>>
>>>> That's from the guy who suggests simply having a gun in your home is
>>>> dangerous.
>>>
>>> Posted by a man without the courage to quote me directly. What I 
>>> actually posted was data, and links to data.
>>>
>>>> But, the fact that the USA has more criminals is a result of
>>>> disastrous liberal nanny government policies.
>>>
>>> :-) So much imagination, so little intellect!
>>
>> +1
>>
>> What an unmitigated load of horseshit from that dumbass.
>>
>> I don't suppose he would care to share any data showing countries with 
>> liberal 'nanny' state policies have higher crime?
>>
>> Of course not! Why would that be?
>>
>> Well how about 
>> https://www.statista.com/statistics/262962/countries-with-the-most-prisoners-per-100-000-inhabitants/
>>
>> US has the 6th highest incarceration rate in the world. All those 
>> disgusting european nanny states don't even make this list of the top 30.
>>
>> How about the most peaceful countries in the world?
>> https://www.economicsandpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GPI-2024-web.pdf
>>
>> Notice anything? yup, all those disgusting liberal nanny states top 
>> the list with france an outlier at #86. The US? #132.
>>
>> Want more? How about european murder rates?
>> https://www.statista.com/statistics/1268504/homicide-rate-europe-country/
>>
>> OF those disgusting liberal nanny states, Belgium tops the list at 
>> 1.54. The US?
>>
>> https://www.statista.com/statistics/191223/reported-murder-and-nonnegligent-manslaughter-rate-in-the-us-since-1990/
>>
>> 6.3
>>
>> fer fucks sake...that dumbass is as bad at kunich with flinging his 
>> shit onto the keyboard and calling it "facts"
>>
>> What was it Andrew said? oh yeah..."ideology is resistant to data"
> 
> You may not be measuring what you think you're measuring.

You (and the dumbass) might be grasping at straws because your ideology 
is not supported by real world data, history, and experience