• TechyDad@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    My father (right wing Trump supporter who watches FOX News) is always telling me how crime in NYC is out of control. According to him, merely setting foot in NYC means you’ll get mugged, beaten up, and then shot for good measure. Yet, all the evidence actually points to crime rates falling in blue areas like NYC and rising in rural (red) areas.

    Sadly, the FOX News watching conservatives will just say “if crime is this bad here, imagine how much worse it is in blue areas” without actually looking at any statistics.

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      1 year ago

      I’m more concerned with being in a place where everyone is carrying guns. Seems like things are more likely to end deadly. I also thought that was the lesson of the “Wild West.”

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        Someone else already pointed it out, but I’ll reiterate it, the “wild west” actually had strict gun control laws. The movies show armed strangers riding into town. In reality, that stranger would need to report to the local sheriff’s office and turn over his guns. (He’d get them back when he was leaving.)

        When the Supreme Court ruled that any gun control measures had to have a historical precedent, they conveniently ignored what really happened in the wild west and pretended that the movie version was real life.

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          Curious that they would say that when there was no precedent to their reinterpretation of the second amendment.

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            Long historical precedents are only important if they don’t like the law. If they like the law, then they’ll find justification even if they need to misquote some 15th century philosopher.