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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The. Problem. Is. The. F#ck!ng. Guns.[/quote]

I’m anti-gun, but these incidents aren’t prompted by guns.

It’s standard thievery: mugging, assault, etc.

This will happen with or without guns (think: knives, hammers, fists). This happens all over Europe where they don’t have guns and simply use knives or hammers.

Candidly, I’m worried that the current racial and economic climate are fueling these incidents. And “rich” college kids are easy targets. [/quote]

This is not universally true.  In Urbana-Champaign Illinois, the two towns in the middle of corn fields that surround the UIUC campus has been plagued by drive-by shootings this year.  The shootings are not motivated by thievery, but appear to symptomatic of a culture of extreme gun violence.  A recent grad was shot in his car running errands after honking his horn at a fellow driver.  And the first article linked below explains one recent incident that sounds pretty random. The campus proper has been free of gun fire, but it is surrounded by it regularly.  A shooting on the main "campus town" boulevard involved 50 shots fired in August. It's not a matter of just giving up your wallet if you are mugged when there are this many bullets flying around.

https://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/courts-police-fire/i-think-it-s-time-that-the-victims-come-out-to-light-drive-by-shooting/article_11b4dc7b-de24-510a-9f47-00eb8a32e45b.html  
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/courts-police-fire/extreme-ruthless-violence-forever-alters-life-of-ui-grad/article_3abfcdc4-837c-5e3e-b8ca-df37f1218787.html
https://www.arlingtoncardinal.com/2021/08/more-than-50-casings-recovered-at-shooting-on-green-st-near-2nd-st-champaign/[/quote]

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