Another Traveller Fist fight

A lot of videos here on /rpublicfreakout are of people being violently attacked without consenting to a fight. The guy in this video may or may not have consented to a 1v1 fight, I doubt he consented to having his skull smashed with a brick by 1 guy while fighting another. He didn't "put himself in that position".

Also your line of reasoning is ridiculous. By your logic, why give cops guns? Bad guys can have guns too, so they can sneak up on the cops and shoot them, so might as well take the guns away from the cops, right? Why have locks? Bad guys can break locks, so what's the point, right?

The point is that it requires an elevation of force that acts as discouragement to commit the crime. If someone has a good bike lock, yes, I can go and get a circular saw or blowtorch or other crazy power tool to defeat it, but how likely am I to do that? Also, a random poverty stricken criminal is less likely to even have access to that.

If you want to steal $20 from someone and all you need to do is punch a random person out, that's easier than having to pull out a gun and shoot them, especially knowing that if you don't immediately kill them they will pull out a gun and shoot you back, and even if they can't do that, someone else might do so.

As for US crime statistics, that's a rabbit hole that you probably don't want to crawl down. Some very alarming things happen when you look at those stats through the lens of race. It used to be the case the US had a violent crime rate that was higher than other developed countries. But the USA is a big country and you can look at crime at the state level. In states that are racially homogeneous (mostly white), the crime rate is very low and comparable to other racially homogeneous countries, like Japan. The crime rate is much higher in racially heterogeneous states. Recently, crime rates have spiked in certain regions in Europe. London's violent crime rate has increased tremendously over the past couple of decades. What else has happened to London in the past couple of decades? Mass immigration.

Also, if you look at US crime stats you will see that whites overall commit violent crime at levels that aren't much higher than homogeneous countries with gun control. What's pushing up the overall numbers are the violent crimes committed by African Americans and non-white Hispanic Americans. Black people make up 13% of the population and commit 50% of the violent crime, for example.

To say that America's crime rate can be blamed on guns, then, is questionable. One could easily use statistics to show that America's crime rate is higher than, say, Denmark's, simply because America has more black people.

Just to be clear, I'm not saying I understand everything that's going on or that black people are inherently more violent, that's a huge assumption to make and a dangerous one to get wrong. But what I am saying is that the stats paint a very troubling and confusing picture, it's far more complicated that just saying "merrica has more crime cuz merricans have guns". That is as logically sound as saying "merrica has more crime cuz merrica has more blacks", which is what the other side does say. So you make as much sense as they do, which is to say not much.

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