• jjpamsterdam@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    I know. It still feels odd to me as a Dutchman though to know that there’s dozens of gun related crimes going on all the time.

    • frongt@lemmy.zip
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      2 days ago

      A big portion of them are gang violence, meaning it’s targeted and not something you’d ever see. Like Mexico has an even bigger gang violence problem, but plenty of people travel there all the time.

      Also, some of those gun crime numbers are “guy got arrested for drugs and had a gun on him”, not necessarily gun violence.

    • glimse@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      I don’t love it either but you and I are probably have a similar chance of dying to gun violence even if the statistics say I’m 200% more likely to