It might be worth it to mention that the city
is made up of only 7,375
families, and the
median income is $61,355 and for a family
$75,465.
There is wireless internet for everyone in the
city parks.
With
stats like that, you are unlikely to have
a lot of crime in any case, and there
are conflicting
statistics on whether or not the crime
rate is from the gun
law, which passed in 1982, or
other factors. Crime in NYC is down too,
actually,
as it is in general in the US.
One could conclude that when
everyone has all they
need, crime rates drop. I would think that a
knowledge
that everyone has a gun might deter outsiders
from driving into town and
burglarizing what must
be a tempting target, though.
But even if all you
say is true, there are serious
questions as to whether the same would work in a
place
like NYC, where people attribute the drop in crime to
laws passed to
control gun ownership. You get a lot of
nut cases in cities, you know, and
homelesss people end
up drawn to cities with services to help them, and
such,
and if they are all armed, so that there are guns
everywhere you go, the odds of
something
awful happening are terrible to contemplate. It's a
complicated
problem, and no simple solution will fit.
I mean, people left the Wild West
to move back to Ohio or wherever there were laws and sheriffs and such,
because
it was simply too dangerous to raise a family in a place
where the law
was private guns.
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