Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoMan busted for carrying Master Sword from Zelda in the streetwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square141fedilinkarrow-up1337arrow-down118cross-posted to: andfinally
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minus-squaresunzu@kbin.runlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·6 months agoI see. Is this pure fear behind it or is there some evidence that the law is beneficial? But yeah, another good pretext for harassing the young and/or poors. Reminds of war on drugs until police started doing to the all “children” in the US and that attitude changed pretty quick.
minus-squareBuffalox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·edit-26 months agoWe (Denmark) have 0.9 homicides per 100,000 capita, UK has 1.1 USA has 6.3. Of course there are other factors, but overall regulation definitely and very evidently helps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate
I see. Is this pure fear behind it or is there some evidence that the law is beneficial?
But yeah, another good pretext for harassing the young and/or poors.
Reminds of war on drugs until police started doing to the all “children” in the US and that attitude changed pretty quick.
We (Denmark) have 0.9 homicides per 100,000 capita, UK has 1.1 USA has 6.3.
Of course there are other factors, but overall regulation definitely and very evidently helps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate
That’s at best a correlation