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Re:Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds by AdrianB1 on Thursday September 16, 2021 @03:01PM (#28555803)
Living in Romania, the thing I miss mostly when hiking in the mountains is a long rifle. This is for self defence against huge populations of bears and boars, not for anything else. Guns in the country side are also tools, not just weapons.

Homicide rate is low in Romania because we don't have violent criminal gangs, almost at all. It is a small country with different policing system. But there are plenty of guns in the hands of criminals, having a very restrictive gun policy does not help the ordinary citizens, just the criminals. Opening up would be leveling the conditions.

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Re:Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds by ChuckNorris89 on Thursday September 16, 2021 @03:31PM (#28556242)
>we don't have violent criminal gangs, almost at all.

On the contrary, we have plenty of violent crime clans (mostly gypsy), they just don't use firearms but have no issue threatening you and your family or beating you into submission with melee weapons or bare hands/feet if you stand in the way of their (mostly) illegal activities while the local police, even when they're not on their payroll, are toothless thanks to the poorly defined laws and they can't, or simply can't be bothered to take much action against them unless they commit some extremely violent acts that get lots of media coverage for which higher levels of government are called for accountability.

My $0.02

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Re:Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds by AdrianB1 on Thursday September 16, 2021 @03:33PM (#28556269)
They are not so violent compared with US gangs.
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Re:Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds by ChuckNorris89 on Thursday September 16, 2021 @03:37PM (#28556317)
And the US gangs aren't so violent compared to the Brazilian gangs in the favelas or the Mexican drug cartel gangs; what does this have to do with it?
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Re:Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds by easton_s on Thursday September 16, 2021 @03:51PM (#28556576)
Where does a gang end and a militia begin?
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Re:Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds by AdrianB1 on Friday September 17, 2021 @04:06PM (#28570318)
The point is that in Romania you don't really need guns to protect yourself from gangs.
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