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Re:America is giving up on the pandemic? by gridlockd on Sunday June 07, 2020 @06:47PM (#23451710)
The vast majority of police forces are armed, even in low-crime countries.

> the entire country of Germany seems to use fewer bullets than a single US city

So perhaps guns are not actually the problem? There's commensurately little crime occurring in Germany, crime is not punished as harshly and criminals are not armed to the same degree.

When somebody is getting arrested in the US, they're looking at years in harsh prisons. They're likely to use any sort of irrational means to avoid or resist getting arrested.

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Re:America is giving up on the pandemic? by the_pwner224 on Sunday June 07, 2020 @07:27PM (#23452003)
If the punishments are so harsh then the 'irrational' means seem to be pretty rational.
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Re:America is giving up on the pandemic? by throw0101a on Monday June 08, 2020 @02:56PM (#23459587)
> There's commensurately little crime occurring in Germany,

The stats seem to show comparable crime rates across most industrialized countries; see point 7:

* https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/2/16399418/u...

There's just more violence in the US:

* https://www.vox.com/2015/8/27/9217163/america-guns-europe

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