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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Violently-inclined criminals are famous for obeying gun laws. That's why cities like Chicago, Detroit, Newark and Baltimore are so safe - they've got all of those anti-gun laws keeping you feeling fuzzy about being there.

It's working, right? Chicago only has an all-time high of 700 murders this year. [/quote]

Those cities are surrounded by areas without such laws. Islands like Hawaii (and Japan, among others) show what happens when it's very difficult to bring weapons into a territory. So, if anti-weapon policies could expand beyond these cities, that should deliver results.

[quote]My house was built over 100 years ago, like many rowhouses in DC. Anything built before 1970 has lead in it. Yet, my children are not super-preditors. Instead they are scholars, musicians, and athletes. 
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Is the lead paint flaking, and/or do you have the means to prevent/repair that? Many are not so fortunate. There's also the matter of [b]environmental racism[/b] affecting the locations of pollution sources, and things like the massive hate crime that is Flint's water crisis.

We are aware of the overall Great Crime Decline, right? It seems so, since most of the focus is on the specific matter of DC youth gun crime.[/quote]

I really hate it when the environment gets all racist. It needs some fricking diversity training!![/quote]

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