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American media, film industry and society in general is spreading sex, nudity, Alcohol, gambling, fashion, racism etc. which results in more rape cases and you can say American culture is a rape culture.
Thank you, Mr. ISIS. Why can't American culture be as the peace-loving culture of the Middle East and Africa. We would be so much better off with a culture that accepts women being whipped in the streets for a minor dress code infraction or necklacing or just being hacked to death over tribal disputes. Yes, we should become like them, America is too violent a nation. Just ask the people in Chicago, South Central L.A., Oakland, St. Louis, Baltimore, New Orleans, etc. They'll tell ya.
{...so you don't have to double post a reply if you forget something.}
Yes, but I have my reasons for a separate reply. If I keep appending to a reply, people/you may not read it. It would be too long, in some cases, and I would get a reply of TL;DR;
I've only been on this site for a short time and it is a little difficult to maneuver in. SodaHead had a much better layout for displaying issues and making replies. In this one, unless I match the levels of indentation of replies, I am not really sure who is responding to whom. I do not particularly care for the PRO and CON split screen or moving to a different screen to make a reply. I'm sorry that SodaHead went elsewhere, but this will do.
{You shouldn't believe everything you hear on the news :P}
{...you respond by saying crime still exists. It's just silly.}
Hmm. I guess I shouldn't. Those links I showed you are filled with lies. I shouldn't believe everything I hear/read in the news. They never happened. Silly me saying that crime still exists.
My argument was not that of statistics from 30 years ago, it's about today. If a city has 50+ shootings and 10+ deaths over a holiday weekend, then Houston...we've got a problem.
Crime itself is a problem, but when someone tells you the crime is seriously going down consistently and you come back with examples of how crime is still going on, it is silly. When someone says "Hey, the problem is getting better at least" and you say "there is still a problem", it just comes across as if you weren't listening.
{you come back with examples of how crime is still going on}
Uh...crime is not still going on?
{it just comes across as if you weren't listening.}
Oh, I was listening. But I also told you that the crime stats of 30 years ago didn't concern me. They have gone down, but marginally. When Giuliani became mayor of NYC, the Republican mayor brought the murder rate down from over 2,000 per year to about 600 per year. Bloomberg followed suit and brought it down to about 300 per year. Strong Republican leadership and strict law enforcement. Now, de Blasio has weakened law enforcement and there is a 16% increase in murders.
I gave you the stats for the2014 and 2015 murders in Chicago. Ignore them, if you like, but don't tell me you are much better off. You may be, but the dead...no.
Not sure I understand that as a response to what I was saying.
Oh, I was listening. But I also told you that the crime stats of 30 years ago didn't concern me. They have gone down, but marginally.
If by "marginally" you mean almost 50% nationally, then yes, that is marginally.
I gave you the stats for the2014 and 2015 murders in Chicago. Ignore them, if you like, but don't tell me you are much better off. You may be, but the dead...no.
In the 1970's, there were TWICE as many murders per year as there are now. I can in fact tell you that we are much better off here, and I would be right. Again, you are using individual examples as a means of trying to undermine statistical trends which just does not work.
I was talking about you using sarcasm. You seemed to use sarcasm about America being violent, but then you mentioned a bunch of cities that have violence which would indicate that you were serious about America being violent.
I was not being totally sarcastic. I agreed with him/her that crime is down from 30 years ago but it is not nearly over. So I gave the stats to prove my point.
The progressives' plan is to tear down civilisation and culture to have a reason to "come to the rescue". Their plan already works quite nicely in urban areas where crime and mayhem is rampant.
This question would have more credibility if you had provided some verifiable global statistics. ( the video link was inaccessible, well at least it was for me.) The United Stares is an open society in which all forms of crime are reported and in the 'public domain' for anyone to scrutinize. This isn't the case in most Asian countries such as India and Pakistan where rape and violence against females is a congenital part of their culture. No one knows what is happening in countries such as Russia whose ''tin curtain'' regime denies the free flow of information. Another interesting statistic would be the ethnic background from which most rapists originate. In the U.K, 90% of rape and violent crime originates from the blacks, even though they only form 10% of the population. After that, Asians, particularly the Pakistanis, are responsible for most cases of rape and paedophilia.
