re: Murder Rate Factors - What can we learn from other countries?

Besides the majority of gun violence is committed by one group. And none of you want to go down that road.

Again would that population be willing to do this?

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Each prefecture — which ranges in size from half a million people to 12 million, in Tokyo — can operate a maximum of three gun shops; new magazines can only be purchased by trading in empty ones; and when gun owners die, their relatives must surrender the deceased member's firearms.

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Yall are going to have to strip away rights from a group of people.

To summarize explanations for LOWER murder rates as compared to USA, so far.

Ranking and ordering to what I believe are most to least importance in terms of contribution to murder rate, for further discussion.

And some questions for those who think it simply boils down to race/ethnicity, of which there are a number of you:
1. Successful African-Americans vs. African-American murders - what is difference in USA?
2. African-Americans in Europe vs. USA - what is difference vs. USA?



#1 FAMILY STRENGTH
Single-parent units place undue stress on overall unit
- Forces focus on basic needs vs. tools to advance in the economic system, eg, education

Best case outcome:
Kids not getting ingredients they need to develop into productive citizens to the level they otherwise would get in strong family unit
(See African-Americans with strong family units as cases in point)

Worst case outcome:
Kids not raised at all (feral) or kids raising kids; leaving culture-building to the kids, who glorify gang culture and thuggery and create vicious cycle across community and generations

Welfare at its core is there to help people who need help; however, it offers no incentives to address the root causes and has unintended consequences of reinforcing the root causes) and consequences of long-term if not lifetime timelines.

Other things that tear into a family unit:
Alcohol and drugs
Violence
Role modeling alcohol, drugs and violence
No quality engagement

That leads to connection to #2


#2 CULTURE OF RESPECT & DISCIPLINE
Closely related to Family strength, but goes beyond family nucleus and into multiple family nuclei, a fabric of people who individuals see and can reflect upon to see values and beliefs of:
- Respecting elders
- Self discipline
- Delivering obligations

Critical is for these individuals to be able to see people like themselves thriving via respect, self discipline, and delivering obligations; otherwise, it is just words.

(eg, I can fathom becoming what people with these values and beliefs become)

This is where hope and optimism is either born or destroyed. Try living a life without hope and optimism. That leads to #s 3 and 4:


#3 DRUGS AND ALCOHOL (Most forgot alcohol, silly OT'ers)


#4 WEAK VS. STRONG CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEMS

Singapore not surprising they will publicly beat the shite out of you for littering

Also while no one in the media will report it our crime numbers would be very good if we removed the urban black male from the equation. That’s the elephant in the room no one acknowledges. Small fraction of our population commits the majority of violent crime

It's no surprise that the cities with the lowest homicide rates (regardless of whether they're in gun friendly states or not) all have low poverty rates and a low athletic and explosive %.