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Originally Posted by d2_e4
Can you walk into a Walmart there and just buy one? Or is there some sort of more selective vetting process, perchance?
But yeah, I got what you were driving at, they don't have as much melanin per capita.
They don't have the same propensity to crime among the population.
And btw finland has 3x the murder rate of switzerland , with more white people as a % of the population (afaik).
Highest murder rate in the EU is Latvia which is perhaps the whitest country, or one of the whitest (many other countries have more non white immigrants)
I get that when murder rate is very low, if the population is small rare events can increase it temporarily a lot, but iirc significant differences remain even when comparing mostly-white countries.
The balkans for a while had very high murder rate (compared to say Spain or Italy).
Fact is that if you can pinpoint countries where guns are very common among civilians, and so easy to procure for criminals (stealing them isn't that hard), but still gun violence isn't high, it means prioritizing gun control can't be correct.
While afaik there are no countries with really high crime rates that don't also have high murder rates.
Tl;dr: reducing crime through policies always work to save lives, even at the margin. Reducing gun access doesn't necessarily unless it's done in a really extreme way