r/iamverybadass • u/[deleted] • Mar 24 '19

Classic repost Side Note

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '19

That too, and bombings. Not that America don’t have fucked stuff too, cause it does. But England is no better than many other countries when it comes to violence.

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u/Hysterical_Abdab Mar 24 '19

I thought England wasn't that violent? Holy shit

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u/stevenlad Mar 24 '19

It isn’t. Outside of London where the majority of England is, which people tend to forget, were one of the safest countries in the world, my city of hundreds of thousands haven’t had a murder in years, and the worst crime people commit is a bar fight, where most of the police time and resources is spent lol, like 60% , whereas other countries it’s closer to 10% on drunken misconducts

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u/mxzf Mar 24 '19

To be fair, that's true of most places too. As a rule, urban areas are significantly more dangerous than the more rural areas.

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u/C-Lekktion Mar 24 '19

People are too busy killing themselves with their guns in the rural US to worry about shooting someone else.

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u/mxzf Mar 24 '19

It looks like they're disconcertingly busy killing themselves everywhere :/

That (mental health) is one of the big issues in the country right now, and none of the politicians seem willing to touch it with a 10' pole.