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MI: Finns could show us the way
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Mark A. Taff
Website: http://www.marktaff.com
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According to respected criminologist Frederic Lemieux of George Washington University, from 1983 to 2013, statistics show that while the United States had the highest number of guns per inhabitants (88.8 per 100) and 78 mass murders, Finland came in third with 45.3 guns per 100 inhabitants and two mass murders. So, how do we respect our current interpretation of the Second Amendment while also living peacefully? Maybe the Finns could show us the way. |
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PHORTO
(11/25/2017)
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And, was Finland founded upon the same First Principles as the United States?
No. Finland is 'progressive', i.e. state-supersedes-individual.
No sale. |
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jac
(11/26/2017)
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The Finns also don't have the minority demographics that contributes to most of the crime and shootings in the USA. If you removed the minority crime statistics, the USA would be one of the lowest crime and safest countries in the world.
Any comparison between the USA and Finland crime statistics is meaningless. |
| Comment by:
dasing
(11/27/2017)
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| You need to compare Finland to Texas for a closer comparison, also see CA, The mid west... Not the USA as a whole!!! |
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| I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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