A University of South Carolina student was shot and killed as he apparently tried to enter the wrong home on his off-campus street early on Saturday, police said.
Nicholas Anthony Donofrio, 20, of Connecticut, was dead by the time police responded to reports of a home burglary and shooting, according to a Columbia Police Department news release. Officers found his body on a front porch around 2 a.m., and Donofrio had a gunshot wound to his upper body, the release said.
You may be a “responsible gun owner,” but, overall, the US gun culture is completely ridiculous. A society that has people living in such fear that they feel the need to be armed and ready at all time is a failed society in my book.
I agree. Why I moved from a blue city to a red city. The crime is so much less here. It isn’t irrational fear when the crime is real.
There aren’t any red cities in the US. Certainly not big ones.
Do you think the crime is lower because the city is smaller or because it’s red?
It’s definitely the red culture. The north part of the city is more blue. The crime is rampant. The south part is more red. Much less crime. People know we will call the police in the south. Blue cities need to figure out police are needed but need to be retrained. I’ve been working with my police chief on doing that. I’m working to show how to improve our community policing model.
If permissive gun laws made places safer, America would be the safest country in the world by a large margin.
Instead, it’s crime rate is roughly the same as any other wealthy country, just with a layer of extreme gun violence on top.
We’ve waited 20 years for pro-gun bullshit to come true and it hasn’t made an inch of progress. People are being murdered the the street and authoritarians have never had more political power.
Crime isn’t the same across all of America.
The area I live in is very safe. Everywhere I’ve lived has been fairly safe.
The solution is more police in the crime ridden areas to bring them the safety they deserve.
Yes we’ve seen your awkward talking point 50 times already. You moved to a “red city” and theres no crime and the police regularly ask if you’re in need of fellating and we’ll just have to take your word for it because you’ve never said it’s name.
I’m sure it’s very very convincing to people who have never looked at wealth, education and healthcare rankings ordered by how right wing a place is.
I never said no crime. I said lower crime.
Safer areas tend to more affluent. Crime doesn’t pay.
Trouble with figurative speech huh? Nevermind, it’s only social media – I’m sure you haven’t built political opinions on things you didn’t understand but assumed you did.
Crime usually has root causes like poverty, inequality, poor education, etc.
If you look at Europe, the crime rate is much lower than in the US. Gun violence is near non-existent outside of gang-related crime.
Most of Europe would be deep, deep blue if transferred to the US political scale. They have heavy gun control and redistribution of wealth results in much less financial inequality. In turn, it causes much lower crime rates.
I don’t think US crime rates have anything to do with culture. It has to do with rampant inequality and easy access to weapons. Combine that with mental health issues, and you got a real toxic cocktail.
If you look here, you’ll see the total crime rate is higher in Europe than America.
https://www.hoplofobia.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2017-Crime-Statistics-Comparison-between-EU-and-US.pdf
For some reason people think Europe has less crime which isn’t true. I’m much more likely to be assaulted in Europe than I am in America.
We have murder problem but it’s very isolated.
Europe has a lot of petty theft issues. Always have had.
In this thread, we were specifically talking about gun violence, which is through the roof in the US and almost non-existent in Europe. It’s also the most dangerous type of crime, which often turns otherwise non-violent, petty crimes deadly.
And for some reason, conservatives don’t want to look at the tools being used for gun violence. The guns.
Most of the people killing each other are not conservatives. As a conservative, I don’t want to restrict my constitutional rights. I would prefer we focused on solving the crime issue. In the 90’s, Biden pushed for longer prison sentences, more police, and more enforcement of the laws, which saw our murder rate decline. We need to do that again.
As a progressive, I’d prefer to look at the tools that enable the gun violence: The guns. It’s just very clear that the US has an enormous problem with gun violence compared to other parts of the developed world. The thing that stands out is obviously easy access to weapons.
Fresh example: Jacksonville, where a rightwing nut went ballistic with an AR-15 in a racist rampage. Weapons bought legally, since he seemed like “one of the good guys with a gun.”
Sorry, but I’m not willing to sacrifice school kids and my fellow Americans’ lives to defend some “right” invented in a completely different time with very different types of weapons available.
Did you even make it to the end of that paper? It openly states that the discrepancies could be due to flawed data or that fact that widespread firearm ownership has resulted in criminals that will straight up execute you if things get out of hand.
Congratulations, you traded “having your phone stolen” for “having your child die screaming in agony on their classroom floor because a legal gun owner shot them in the spine”.
I’m fine with the compromise. All studies point out possible flaws. Nothing new.
Of course you are, you think it proves you right. You’d be fine with it being written in crayon.
The rest of us are justifiably more skeptical about a paper that doesn’t say what you imply it says and mispells “firearms” in the very first paragraph.
Shooting someone for knocking on your door is pretty fucking irrational to me, it has nothing to do with blue or red, neither party forced them to push the trigger.