By fuckyoudeadgunnuts - 04/09/2015 14:30 - United States - San Francisco

Today, I met my Canadian friend at the airport. As we were heading into the city, I told him not to worry about all the US stereotypes and that gun crime in my city is rare. A few hours later, we witnessed a guy get shot in the street in broad daylight. Now he's too scared to leave the house. FML
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pleasedie 22

Anybody else thought this was going to be in Texas

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Anony2014 10

My mind went straight to New Jersey, actually...

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xyris_fml 28

Detroit was my first thought. Maybe because I've been there.

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SnowxSakura 17

I thought of Memphis, where it's quite common for that to happen.

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finalyearsofhate 22

My initial assumption was LA. Strong gun laws, lousy follow-through.

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beeferjay 34

in AZ, it's open carry, conceal carry all day. anything goes but we're (mostly) not stupid about it

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iAlissa 34

#15, with all due respect, no one in their right mind would say Detroit rarely has shootings haha

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amanda182 19

Omg let's not talk about Chicago. I'm in the airport in Chicago right now waiting for my next flight ):

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slutfactory 17

#48, Are you actually aware of the city of Detroit, or-

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deathshead 19

honestly my thoughts went straight to NYC but maybe thats just me... now to actually check the location.

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thebestofboth 20

I've lived in Houston my entire life and have never seen a shooting in person.

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tj4234 35

Pretty sure having more guns on the street is not the solution to gun crime...

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MrDonSalvetti 27

#14 Pretty sure you didn't recognize the sarcasm in this one...

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the_real_dvd 21

Pretty sure every study shows that the less restrictive it is for law abiding people to own guns, the lower the crime rates. That's something the gun control fanatics won't tell you.

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RedPillSucks 31

pretty sure that studies have shown that those guns are more likely to get stolen or used to shoot a family member or acquaintance. your argument also doesn't explain why countries with stricter gun laws have less gun violence than the US

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AHzulu 25

Hold on let me blow some fake statistics out my ass

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Ichiya 29

If law abiding citizens lose guns we might have less accidents, but I doubt the criminals misusing guns will follow the gun laws. If they did we wouldn't have this issue to begin with. Besides violent people will find other weapons to use in their crimes.

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NotCharlieRost 15

Guns are fine. What's not fine are giant full auto rifles that people can go buy easily. There is absolutely NO reason for those to be legal, other than its "fun to shoot" and unfortunately it may be fun to shoot but shooting it can hurt people

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Geekman2 10

38, you are correct, but remember that families that own cars are exponentially more likely to be involved in car accidents, that statistic is incidental. As for "other countries", Japan, Australia, and Britain, are three off the top of my head with total bans on guns and zero gun crime. But all those have at least one essential factor in common, they're islands, meaning there is a physically limited number of points of entry into the country. And, here's another couple statistics for you, Japan has one of the highest suicide rates in the world, Australia passed their gun control laws over a decade ago, their homicide rate has not dropped appreciably (people just use other stuff), Britain has contemplated mandating shatterproof pints in order to curb "pint glass violence" The fact of the matter is, all the statistics quoted above, by me and others, are correct, but none of them tell the whole story

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TheBelt 19

Well time to pack his bags now, I think he's had enough.

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SiriusOrionBlack 20

last year, an exchange student at my college from Northern Ireland went to San Francisco over winter break...and got shot in the arm.

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MisterKnowItAll 15

typical America.

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bandaidstations 28

Yeah, I've never seen someone get shot in my life so I wouldn't say that is "typical" I have heard of plenty of shootings in other countries too. Bad generalization.

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gosh_mate 30

As someone who has travelled to America, it's actually so scary to witness anything like this (when you're from a country with strict gun laws). I hadn't even seen a gun up close until I was in America and I'm 20 y/o. But then again, there are risks with every choice a person makes, including getting in a car.

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KaidensCrow 18

I live in America... and while it's not an everyday occurrence...... well.... you won't witness it everyday... but yes I suppose at least one person gets shot every day in the USA... I guess I'm not being very helpful lol... you just have to go to the right places... avoid the high crime cities and you should be good.

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Wer3Wolf3 16

I guess all needs is a shot in the arm.

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MrSassypants 32

That must suck. I live in America but thankfully I never see that. The only time I have seen anyone get shot is when my brothers and I went to go get our vaccination shots.

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