Posts by DutyBard@qoto.org
 (DIR) Post #AUBQTGrWWfKnFyJnRg by DutyBard@qoto.org
       2023-03-31T18:44:13Z
       
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       @rrb @freemo @pj it’s interesting how much one’s views are moulded by one’s environment. “Home invasion” is just not something we think of in the UK. Because, absent easy guns, it is astonishingly rare. And as it is astonishingly rare I feel no need - in my isolated house in the country - to have anything at hand for “defence”.  I guess had I been brought up in the US I would have a different attitude. And there are counties with high rates of gun ownership but low rates of gun crime - but usually they seem to have guns as a result of military training and have a less casual regard for them.
       
 (DIR) Post #AUBUGoFtSYfusL1xKq by DutyBard@qoto.org
       2023-03-31T19:26:47Z
       
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       @freemo @rrb @pj just looked up comparative gun death rates: USA is 51 times more than UK. That is a lot.
       
 (DIR) Post #AUBV8iL5fiaeAFAIQC by DutyBard@qoto.org
       2023-03-31T19:36:32Z
       
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       @rrb @freemo @pj what country would be a suitable comparator?