If this doesn't make the point, I don't know what does

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Yep.  Let's face it, one can make statistics show just about any conclusion one wants to obtain.  Just change the samples, factors, wording, and assumptions.  I can easily find statistics that show gun deaths and crime go *up* when tighter gun controls are enactacted.

The USA is far, far, far less homogeneous than most western European countries in just about every way- race, religion, background, ethnicity, economic, education, values, etc.  Increased diversity = more crime.  Increased freedom usually = more crime.  Neither increased diversity nor freedom is a bad thing.  Freedom does ALWAYS come at a price. 

As far as I know, just about every country has a history of slavery and racism.... that is, if they contained humans.

..and so far we're only half full of marxists.

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Guns, motorcycles, children,  don't want one, don't have one. (Or more)    Do NOT tell me I can't have something because it scares you or makes you uncomfortable. I DON'T CARE.  I find children to be a real pita. I won't presume to tell you not to have them.

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I know I'm a little late to the party here...lol, but what was the point of the two videos again?...lol.

Sorry Steve...just kiddin'...kind of.

Just a note about that second video of the kids in Russia. I've actually spent quite a bit of time in Russia...and I mean in real old fashioned Russia (not just Moscow). The fact that these kids can do this doesn't surprise me. Of all the countries I have been in (almost 30), Russia is still the strangest and most surreal place I have ever been. Anyway...just a word to compare to the USA...I never did see anybody carrying a gun in Russia...other than security guards at the hotels and factories where I was staying/working. I've been to 48 of the US states, and I have seen lots of people with guns...just about every place I worked in Florida I met a guy that had a gun laying on the seat of his truck/car.

In the US, one might worry about being killed by a gun...but in Russia, I think you'd be just as likely to be killed by a 2x4, a crowbar, or with somebody's bare hands...lol. No joke.

As a resident of cold and boring old Canada, we sure do have a different culture here. I'm not saying it's better or worse, just different. I am currently waiting for my rPAL licence, so I guess you could say I'm "pro-gun"...lol.

Anyway...having spent a great deal of time in much of the USA, and quite a bit in Russia, I can say that the two countries are so shockingly different, I don't think you could compare them in any meaningful way.

Rem