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Originally Posted by Oberon
 The point is though, that the figures are misleading because there are more crimes that are classified as 'violent crimes' in the UK that go classified as something else in the US. |
How i'm interpretting this is you actually have MORE then what was cited because you have those violent crime stats in addition to........ whatever else, while we just lump them all into one category.
Backtracking a moment, and putting most everything else aside, I think the guy in that video makes an undeniable point about large metro areas. That is where most of the crime occurs, and we do have more large metro's.
Where I live, crime is so rare, i have inlaw's that rarely lock their doors. The nickname of this area is "happy valley" because everyone here lives in a bubble so to speak, because nothing bad - never, or rarely happens here. (wheres I grew up in SoCal, and am not as oblivious to crime or bad people. I always lock my doors, and put stop sticks in the windows. Others, not so much.)
Again, that brings me to gun crime being a local problem, that should be handled by local law agencies. Which.. leads me to posting
(again?).