05-07-2023, 04:42 PM
SDGuy wrote:
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[quote=SDGuy]
[quote=pdq]
You’re dealing with outliers - cherry-picking, as it were; I’m looking at the whole picture.
No - I'd say you're completely ignoring what I wrote, and the topic of the OP: that there are regional and cultural differences at play, which have an outsized effect on violence (despite whatever laws may be in force).
You seem to have the idea that there is a one-size-fits-all solution; all the OP and myself are pointing out is that that idea is not likely to work.
New Hampshire is a tiny mostly rural state with 92% white middle class people, Population 1.4M.
Nobody would suggest we extrapolate from that few people, and such a limited demograghic slice, what works for the entire country. We already know what works. We lack the will to do it and apparently prefer never ending slaughter of children.
Did you read the OP?
Yes. Obvious from my other comments.