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DecayableBrick t1_j8dgncb wrote

Reply to comment by TerranceBaggz in What's going on in Towson? by scartonbot

Taipei and Tokyo are extremely dense and have some of the lowest crime rates in the entire world.

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DfcukinLite t1_j8duc4z wrote

You cannot compare asian cultures which are collective societies to American western individualism societies.

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DecayableBrick t1_j8dv9jg wrote

Ahh so it's a culture problem then?

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DfcukinLite t1_j8dvdzd wrote

Absolutely. We value guns and they value each other.

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DecayableBrick t1_j8f2d0n wrote

There are areas in the US that have very high rates of gun ownership and yet low crime. How do you account for those?

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DfcukinLite t1_j8fcrzg wrote

That doesn’t change the fact that we as society and culture value guns more than people. And our society it different than Asian ones

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Angdrambor t1_j8dn65v wrote

Those cities also have functioning police dpeartments, better education, and decent transit. We should try to do the same here.

But also, Baltimore has less than half a million people. We can't achieve the sorts of economies of scale that Tokyo can.

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