You know, I'm 24 years old. When I was a boy, my parents never locked our doors. Never needed to. In 24 years, there's never been a single break in to my parents' home, when I lived in the second biggest county, third biggest city in Maryland. Only Baltimore and Annapolis are bigger than our city. At least 80,000 people if I had to guess. Maybe even 100,000. This year marked the first shooting death in my city in years.
And hey, I know we're not New York, but honestly, it seems like folks around here aren't too afraid. So why are so many of us in the US afraid? Where does it come from? I don't think it's the guns, I shoot rifles. I like rifles and handguns. We have a couple ranges and gun shops here, we like guns over here. It's not "minorities". There's probably more black and latino here than there are whites.
You take a place like New York, they have more blacks and latinos, probably. But what do you guys think? My sister is in Canada. They've got 7 million guns for 30 million Canucks. They've got the violent video games and movies, just like us. They have a good mix of ethnicities just like us. But they don't lock their doors over there, either. They're not afraid. They even have more poor than we do, a higher unemployment rate, believe it or not.
Why are we afraid? Why aren't they?
And hey, I know we're not New York, but honestly, it seems like folks around here aren't too afraid. So why are so many of us in the US afraid? Where does it come from? I don't think it's the guns, I shoot rifles. I like rifles and handguns. We have a couple ranges and gun shops here, we like guns over here. It's not "minorities". There's probably more black and latino here than there are whites.
You take a place like New York, they have more blacks and latinos, probably. But what do you guys think? My sister is in Canada. They've got 7 million guns for 30 million Canucks. They've got the violent video games and movies, just like us. They have a good mix of ethnicities just like us. But they don't lock their doors over there, either. They're not afraid. They even have more poor than we do, a higher unemployment rate, believe it or not.
Why are we afraid? Why aren't they?