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  • 'only affect law-abiding citizens...' - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, July 08 2012 @ 10:45 AM EDT

The simple truth of living in the city is you will have a neighbor that will annoy the heck out of you, if not several. It's an extreme place and the temptations to do something anti-social as a response to all the pressures of city life are intense.

You bring up a good point. I recall reading about studies that showed increased violence with high-density populations in mice colonies. NYC (among other cities) may be an example of a high enough human population density to trigger the same effect.

As a rule of thumb I believe you can tell if a country has citizens or subjects by whether that are allowed to own and carry guns. Citizens are allowed to own and carry guns, but subjects are not.

But no rule of thumb is perfect, including this one.

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