Had A Bad Scare Today.

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Perhaps that is the case. I think drugs, poverty and houses which are are easy to break into are a bad combination. Perhaps a gun in self defence might well be a serious deterrent.

Yeah I think the Castle Doctrine is a wise one. I also think concealed carry is good law. Why? It introduces uncertainty into a criminals mind. He not only has to worry about the person he's about to assault carrying, but the guy walking down the street, the guy coming out a door etc. It really alters the risk reward. I think it says something that in the USA the highest crime rates are in places where guns are hard to carry legally, like Washington DC, Chicago and Detroit.

On another, related, noted. I suspect, but cannot prove, that homogenous societies simply eliminate large numbers of social ills merely through their homogeneity. Pluralistic societies seem to have to trade some level of social ills for the richness of multiple, interacting cultures.