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Iceland is a gun-loving country with no shooting murders since 2007
NBCNews ^ | May 28, 2018 | Alexander Smith and Vladimir Banic

Posted on 05/28/2018 8:59:05 AM PDT by gattaca

Edited on 05/28/2018 9:40:07 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

While the remote island is the size of Kentucky and has a population similar to St. Louis, Missouri, Icelanders say the U.S. can learn from their gun laws.

REYKJAVIK, Iceland

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1 posted on 05/28/2018 8:59:05 AM PDT by gattaca
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Buy a clue, people. How many non-Whites live in Iceland?


2 posted on 05/28/2018 9:01:05 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: gattaca

How about some common sense media?


3 posted on 05/28/2018 9:03:23 AM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Build Kate's Wall)
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To: gattaca

What does any of this have to do with the Border patrol or hamburgers and hotdogs?


4 posted on 05/28/2018 9:04:44 AM PDT by TomServo
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We need common sense media control with background checks. We need to know who these people are.


5 posted on 05/28/2018 9:05:24 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: txrefugee

Why does nearby Greenland have a homicide rate comparable to Chicago’s? Who lives in Greenland?


6 posted on 05/28/2018 9:05:56 AM PDT by Sooth2222 (Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.")
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To: gattaca; mylife; Joe Brower; MaxMax; Randy Larsen; waterhill; Envisioning; AZ .44 MAG; umgud; ...

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7 posted on 05/28/2018 9:06:33 AM PDT by PROCON ('Progressive' is a euphemism for Totalitarian)
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To: gattaca

If I was as corrupt as our media I wouldn’t want the populous armed either.


8 posted on 05/28/2018 9:07:09 AM PDT by IC Ken (Stop making stupid people famous)
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To: gattaca

‘Common Sense’ means agreeing with liberals


9 posted on 05/28/2018 9:07:18 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: gattaca

Does that include when criminals obey the law?


10 posted on 05/28/2018 9:07:26 AM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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“When you have an automatic gun in your home, anybody can access it, your children or anyone else,” he says.
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No understanding of US gun laws by this Icelander.
The Ministry of Propaganda is happy to use his misunderstanding to further their agenda.


11 posted on 05/28/2018 9:08:35 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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No other country in the developed world


That is there *out*. The define “developed” as countries with lower crime rates. It is a scam.

Lots of countries in the world have higher murder rates than the United States. Lots have higher murder rates with guns.

I guess Venezuela is conveniently “not developed” now.

Jamaica? Not developed since the British ceded sovereignty to the locals.

Panama? Not Developed.

Kenya? Not Developed.

Albania? Not Developed.

Mexico? Not Developed.

Brazil? Not Developed.

If you take out the sub-populations in the U.S. that have the cultures of “not developed” countries, such as Hispanics and urban black ghettos, the U.S. has crime rates similar to Europe.


12 posted on 05/28/2018 9:08:43 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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Wait. You are trying to tell me that a leftist news misleadia organization is pushing gun control???!??

UNPOSSIBLE!


13 posted on 05/28/2018 9:08:46 AM PDT by Lazamataz (What America needs is more Hogg control.)
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To: txrefugee

That’s not the right question.

The question would be better phrased “How many multi-generationally-fatherless males live in Iceland?”.


14 posted on 05/28/2018 9:09:37 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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You mean when murderers have no access to guns because they refuse to violate gun laws?


15 posted on 05/28/2018 9:09:57 AM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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“That people can go into a store and buy a gun, it’s ridiculous for me,” he says. “If something snaps in his head then he’s able to do it in just one hour — go to a store, buy a gun, go to a guy he’s angry at and shoot him.”


Except, that happens so rarely as to be at the level of Icelandic crime.

Iceland had the low crime rates *before* they instituted the gun laws. The gun laws are just following the socialist playbook.


16 posted on 05/28/2018 9:11:28 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: txrefugee

I spent an entire week driving around Iceland in 2016 (which I would strongly recommend to anyone).

First, you just don’t find crime. Didn’t matter where I went...there never was anything to fear anywhere in terms of human activity. You could be up and around at 11 PM...walking down ‘main street’ Reykjavik, and there’s zero threat.

Second, the handful of migrants and immigrants allowed into the country (they have a process), have to go to a language deal and pass. Then they expect you to work....honest-to-God real work. If you show lousy respect or pretend to fake out on work? They will send you home.

Third, you need to absolutely work because their welfare system would fail you in a matter of months, and the cost of living would be a disaster for the normal migrant to handle.


17 posted on 05/28/2018 9:11:31 AM PDT by pepsionice
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How many MS 13 members are eagerly welcomed, given welfare and housing, no background check required?


18 posted on 05/28/2018 9:11:39 AM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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***No other country in the developed world***

The caveat they always use. This excludes all of Africa, Asia, Central and South America and most of Asia, Eastern Europe.
In their minds the “developed world” is only North America excluding Mexico, Western Europe, Japan and Australia and New Zealand.

Better dangerous FREEDOM than secure slavery.


19 posted on 05/28/2018 9:12:26 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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Okay, let’s start mandatory Gun Training Classes in Public Schools.

I started shooting Guns when I was eight years old and in Third Grade. Seems like a good time to get the young ones training with a nice .22 Bolt Action Rifle like I had.

I’m not sure if my Third Grade Teacher Mrs. Alcorn was a Gun Toting Member if the NRA, but you never know.


20 posted on 05/28/2018 9:12:54 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The only good Commie is a dead Commie. Cast your Vote Accordingly.)
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