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In reply to the discussion: Tweet of the day (Guns) [View all]krispos42
(49,445 posts)28. Roe vs. Wade
The next generation of criminals was sharply reduced in size by women in bad situations having full control over their bodies, thus reducing the number of children being born into bad situations.
Also, 3-strikes-and-you're-out laws put a lot of career criminals on ice. An awful lot of killers work up to it with a career in crime, so by having them in jail automatically for repeat crime, they don't get a chance to graduate to murder.
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The argument that women have been aborting violent criminals for the last 40 years
undeterred
Jul 2012
#51
I don't think you can link the lapse of the assault weapons ban to the drop in gun deaths.
Bucky
Jul 2012
#22
Intentional homicide rate in the US is four or five times that of Europe
Spider Jerusalem
Jul 2012
#32
Still, our non-gun homicide rate is as high or higher than their total homicide rate
krispos42
Jul 2012
#33