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Odin2005

(53,521 posts) Sat Jul 21, 2012, 02:49 PM Jul 2012

Guns are not the problem. a CULTURE OF VIOLENCE is the problem. [View all]

We Minnesotans and North Dakotans love our guns, but our rates of violent crime are as low as Western Europe. Why? Because we do not have a culture of violence. The most violent places in the country are:

1. Poor inner city communities infested by gangs.

2. Areas of the Deep South in which a violent "honor culture" inherited from Planter aristocrats and Scots-Irish ruffians runs deep.

Outside of those areas the rates of violent crime are much lower.

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Guns are not the problem. a CULTURE OF VIOLENCE is the problem. [View all] Odin2005 Jul 2012 OP

but guns help perpetuate the culture of violence Motown_Johnny Jul 2012 #1

That's like saying blogs help perpetuate obscenity derby378 Jul 2012 #2

Well, blogs do help perpetuate obscenity Motown_Johnny Jul 2012 #10

The same can be said about ANYTHING that can be used as a weapon. Odin2005 Jul 2012 #7

One thing I know for sure... Speck Tater Jul 2012 #3

Well.. ananda Jul 2012 #13

That's somebody else's fault too. Speck Tater Jul 2012 #14

Agreed. HopeHoops Jul 2012 #4

Oh bull frazzled Jul 2012 #5

Agreed, and if you look at per capita rates of violence...this idealized area joeybee12 Jul 2012 #6

And here come the moralizers whining about violent shows and games. Odin2005 Jul 2012 #11

I'd rather be a moralizer than a racist frazzled Jul 2012 #12

Southern rednecks are also part of a culture of violence. Odin2005 Jul 2012 #16

It's the video games, I tell ya ....... oldhippie Jul 2012 #8

So you've noticed a link between despair/desperation and violence? Edweird Jul 2012 #9

Minneapolis has a murder rate 2x the national average. Spider Jerusalem Jul 2012 #15

It's the culture of violence aggravated by the easy availability of guns that's the problem meow2u3 Jul 2012 #17

That's because they are projecting. Odin2005 Jul 2012 #18