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Re: My Gun Control Rant
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 9 Jan 2001 16:36:25 GMT
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> But I thought Seattle, on the whole, was safer than many other cities. All
> cities have better and worse parts. There are areas in GR (South Division
> St. for example) that I would not go to unless I was carrying. There are
> areas in NYC I stay out of completely. There are areas in London I was
> explicitly warned away from, and I'm not talking about the high tourist,
> high pickpocket areas like Covent Garden, etc, but more the southeastern
> suburbs
I really would be interested in your justification for making the above
comments, or was it just based on ill-informed rumour? If you can show that
a UK crime "hot spot" is even comparable to one in your land, I truly will
be enlightened. The problem is that fear of crime is 99% perception, and
very little to do with fact... at least in my neck of the woods. Crime is
always "too high" and almost every city has its own "bad area" as far as its
residents are concerned. Do you have some sort of measure for measuring
between cities/countries?
> where the police do an especially poor job of keeping people safe.
Do you really think it is as simple as that?
Scott A
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| (...) Well...if people aren't safe, and the system is set up to prevent them from keeping themselves safe, and people generally believe that police keep them safe, then what's wrong with how Larry put it? Obviously it isn't (usually) the cops' (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I'm not James, of course, but I was warned about being in downtown Seattle ( by the fish market, the area where the monorail lets out, etc) late at night. I happened to *be* downtown late at night soon after, and there were a lot of people (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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