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Originally Posted by jtown,man
He does make a good point. Do the poor and criminals in Europe just never get to the level of wanting to kill others because they can't find a gun? Could be. Killing someone with a gun is LIGHTYEARS easier for a human than looking someone in the eye and coming within inches of them with a knife etc.. But there are of course other factors which come into play. Culture. American culture overall and Southern rural culture which I think has been transcribed into many black Americans.
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Yeah, I was going to make that same point. It's a lot easier to pull a trigger from a distance than to kill someone with a knife just inches away from them. This is less of a problem today, but the phenomenon of drive-by shootings is something distinctly American, too. Cars and guns are not exactly common in Europe. Plus, this country is just more of a violent and volatile place than much of Europe, I suppose excluding the world wars (hah).