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In reply to the discussion: Study: States With Loose Gun Laws Have Higher Rates Of Gun Violence [View all]baldguy
(36,649 posts)21. You're just denying the facts because they don't fit your dogma.
Last edited Thu Apr 4, 2013, 05:16 PM - Edit history (1)
And to say that urban areas are of course violent places simply because they're urban areas, while rural areas aren't violent simply because they're rural shows great deal of bigotry on your part, don't you think?
America has a huge problem with gun violence, and it starts in the states with lax gun laws. It's people like you who stand it the way of sensible gun laws who are responsible for that problem.
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Study: States With Loose Gun Laws Have Higher Rates Of Gun Violence [View all]
Redfairen
Apr 2013
OP
Try again. Vermont and NH have some of the "loosest" gun laws in the country.
geckosfeet
Apr 2013
#5
States with high rates of poverty and low levels of education have high rates of gun violence.
hack89
Apr 2013
#14
Amazing. Even with all of the gun violence in Chicago that we keep hearing about,
Chakab
Apr 2013
#15
So, there's less gun violence where there's less guns? Is this a correlation?
xtraxritical
Apr 2013
#18
The Map Reflects the traditional difference between the North and South when it comes to crime
happyslug
Apr 2013
#27
here in Ohio, I can own silencers and machine guns, I can walk around with a concealed handgun
bubbayugga
Apr 2013
#31