Another Criminal Dead

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Originally Posted by LittleFuzzy

Except Loki did not equate being next to a crime-ridden third world country with being a crime-ridden third world country, he merely said it had a noticeable influence.

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He did not. I was responding to Steelys "it would have neighbors like france and ireland..."

What relates to lokis posts is how relevent a crime-ridden third world country next door is to actual gun statistics. Loki seems to take "we live next to mexico" as panacea for any gun debate, as he has used it in every discussion of this type that i can remember, but never with an attempt at a solution. However, if the only solution to living next to a crime-ridden third world country were to be a third, second or first world country ridden with crime then logically, every country would be the same. This is not the case. Countries are ridden with crime, but not the same. I was really wondering what he would uphold as the determining factors in this debate, if it wasnt that country x bordered mexico or not.

The point is that having a large border with a third world country means you'll find it very hard to prevent the smuggling of contraband...

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Originally Posted by Loki

Eh? Which third world country do the French and Irish border? :confused:

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France is next to Belgium. Which does have a lot of guns by the way (and produces a lot of them), as does Germany.

I think the biggest amount of guns that fell into criminal hands in the Netherlands were weapons caches left by Gladio, for when the Ruskies came. That was a bit embarassing when they found out those were missing...

Belgium has a functioning state (though apparently not a functioning government)...

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Originally Posted by Loki

The point is that having a large border with a third world country means you'll find it very hard to prevent the smuggling of contraband...

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I know. You mention it every time we have a debate about guns in Yankeeland

Do you disagree?