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Old 22nd Jun 2022, 08:09
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43Inches
 
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I can own a gun as easily in Australia as in some states of the US. Interesting to note that by far, the most gun violence are in the states with the toughest and most restrictive gun laws, in some cases, tougher than Australia. Go to a concealed carry state, people tend to have much better manners than the people from others states with tougher gun laws, they tend to have far less crime as well.
No idea where you got your stats from but some quick searches of the most dangerous cities in the US for violent crime all allow concealed carry and the top 2 being Detroit, concealed carry with permit, St Louis (long term top 3) No permit Concealed carry and regulars on the top list like New Orleans, Jackson, Memphis, most of which in states with no permit concealed carry. Too much listening to Fox news and not seeing the data. St Louis is considered one of the most dangerous cities in the world for violent crime... So maybe they are shooting each other with good manners.

You're actually serious with this one? You're saying that profiling doesn't go on in Australia?
There's a difference between stopping and asking questions and arresting, beating and degrading ethnic suspects. It does happen in Australia but nowhere near the scale in the US.

PS in 2020 Australia had 360 odd homicides throughout the entire country of 27million Aussies. St Louis had 270 Homicides in a population of 300,000, and that's repeated across a number of major cities that allow concealed carry across the US, so saying Australia is even remotely comparable to the US crime wise is just silly.

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