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This is an unfair stereotype

In Reply to: Why is USA so violent? posted by Björn on March 31, 1999 at 12:35:12:

: Why is USA so violent? Think about that. Arms in almost every house...

Bjorn, you're very, very wrong. i don't have a gun, nor do most of teh people I know. Most Americans, actually, don't have a gun in their household. The average gun ownership is high only because you have a bunch of people who have three or four guns, and then the majority of us who don't own guns, who would never think of owning guns, and who don't want to live in an armed, hostile, ultra-individualistic society.
the guns are also geographically concentrated, predominantly in the South and West. most Americans don't fit into the gun-happy stereotype.
And by the way, there are at least 2 societies that are far more violent than America- Brazil and Colombia. Although with the increasing wage disparity we're becoming more and more like Brazil every day.....

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