Last week the light at 800 s and 300 e was not responding . I sat there for probably 10 minutes with other people before I eventually just blew through the red light when it was clear . <| sep |> like cattle to the slaughter <| sep |> uOfficialGTA Wolud we like Pussy or drugs for this bootleg ? <| sep |> Yeah , this country most definitely has a serious gun problemWall of text incoming . anyway , I don ' t think it does . You look at homicide rate vs gun ownership , or homicide rate vs gun laws , across the 50 states there ' s no correlation . You do have states with tight laws , low ownership , and low crime Hawaii , Massachusetts , Rhode Island , and states with loose laws , high ownership and high crime Louisiana , Mississippi , New Mexico BUT , you also have states with tight laws , low ownership , and high crime Maryland , Illinois , California and states with loose laws , high ownership , and low crime Vermont , New Hampshire , Maine . There ' s just no correlation either way . You look at how gun laws have changed over the last 25 years and how homicide rates have changed over the last 25 years , gun laws are getting looser while homicide rates go down . Maybe the most convincing thing though is that the US has a homicide rate several times higher than other developed countries . You take every gun homicide out of the statistics , the US stlll has a homicide rate several times higher than other developed countries . Clearly there ' s some deeper problem than just guns . nbspSo what ' s really the difference between the US and these other countries ? Having lived in Canada and the US , and owned guns in both countries , I ' ll tell you the Canadian laws aren ' t that much more strict , and are actually less strict than the laws in several of our states . I can buy an AR 15 in Canada . I can ' t buy one in Massachusetts or Connecticut or New York or Maryland or California . Hell , I can buy a shortbarreled shotgun in Canada , I can ' t buy that anywhere in the US without jumping through a bunch of hoops with the ATF . The conditions for buying weapons aren ' t much different . There ' s a bit more paperwork involved , you do have to get a license , but the basic requirements aren ' t much different . As long as you ' re not a criminal or mentally unstable , you can ultimately get a gun in Canada . And once you have that license , getting guns is arguably even easier in Canada than in the US . In Canada , I can order a gun online and have it delivered to my doorstep . can ' t do that in the US . nbspThe only place the laws are significantly stricter is around what you can actually do with that gun once you have it . Can ' t concealcarry a handgun , can ' t hunt with that AR 15 though I can hunt with the functionally identical , can ' t have magazines over 5 rounds . The problem here is if someone who already has a gun , whether they acquired it legally or not , decides they ' re going to do something evil with it , none of these laws actually impact them . A criminal isn ' t going to obey the prohibition on carrying , they ' re not going to give a shit if their type of weapon is restricted to shooting ranges only , they ' re going to remove the pin from their magazines so they can put 20 , 25 , 30 , however many rounds they want in them . Those laws do nothing to deter crime . The laws governing how people get their hands on weapons in the first place might deter crime . But those laws aren ' t appreciably different in Canada . nbspSo why does Canada have a homicide rate 14 that of the US ? Well , what ' s the one thing many Americans , especially leftleaning Americans , envy about Canada ? ?? Healthcare . And more broadly , social safety nets in general . There ' s still crime in Canada , people turn to crime out of petty greed , or peer pressure , or because they ' re just not very nice people but no one is turning to crime to pay for their mom ' s cancer treatments . nbspThe US doesn ' t have a gun problem , it has a desperation driven crime problem . And the sad thing is , if the Dems would just drop the antigun stupidity , they ' d probably win more elections , and then they could implement things like singlepayer healthcare , and other social policies that would put far more of a dent in our violent crime rates than any illconceived gun laws ever will .