I googled Plano and it has a much higher cost of living than the average in US. Violent crime is correlated to desperation and poverty, not small well off cities in texas. This is so completely and utterly cherry picked that it adds nothing to the argument.
Acid attacks are not "through the roof" in the UK. Violent crime is up, yes, but guns would just mean it was easier to kill people via said violent crime.
We've had 10 years of austerity in the UK that has seen social infrastructure and support systems completely eroded, so violent crime and desperation is far higher. Wages haven't risen in line with cost of living to add to this.
I have been paying attention to Venezuela and the lead up to the situation is far more complex than your anti socialist agenda would dictate. The country was growing and starting to thrive under the previous government but they relied entirely on oil exports... As soon as the prices got slashed they were in huge trouble.
The reason you're seeing such a concerted media effort regarding venezuela on your beloved fox news is because they have the biggest oil reserves in the world. Its not humanitarian in the slightest, it's same ***t, different day.
Same as Libya, Iraq, Syria... If governments don't play ball in resource trading with the West then it's destabilise and get a puppet government in power to trade under our terms. The people they supported for this purpose in Syria turned into ISIS.
There isn't any point in us discussing this, though. To me you're a product of the hard wired American propaganda system of freedom and worshipping the flag, and to you I'm an authoritarian that doesn't value what you perceive to be freedom.
It is funny that you agree that Plano is safe despite having many guns, and that violent crime is up in the UK despite banning guns, but the inverse relation couldn't possibly be causal because, well, you said it's not. So I guess if you are making that claim that "Gun Control Always Lowers Violent Crime, Except When It Doesn't For Other Reasons," well, you can't really be incorrect.
I also don't understand why if simply banning guns and making them illegal is so effective, why don't we just ban murder and assault and rape and robbery and such? That would get rid of all the negatives of someone harming others without stepping on an individual's freedom to protect themselves, right?
Truthfully, I really don't understand why anyone on the Ray Peat Forum (of all places) would spend time defending government programs. I think we all agree that they screwed up health and nutrition, big time. You really think they have an individual's "best interest" in mind? Governments across the globe murdered more that 260 Million people in the 20th century (not including wars)-
20th Century Democide
My favorite quick and dirty breakdown of the stats on Guns Control and Gun Violence is this article-
Gun Control: The TL;DR For The Ignorant and Illiterate
With the overall points being-
"— America has about 357 Millon guns amongst a population of 312 Millon.
— In total, there are 32,000 deaths per year from firearms, 60% being suicide.
— Stripping out small numbers of both accidents (under 1,000) and justified shootings (just over 1,000), leaves 33% being homicide.
— But 80% of the homicides are from inner-city, gang related activities (to which drug laws likely contribute a great deal), and all of them are cities that have been in the hands of leftist, socialist, gun-grabbing Democrats for decades. Every single one.
— We’re left with about 1,700 homicides in a population of 312 million that are predators preying on innocents.
— That’s 0.00000544871795 or .00054%. And this is what everyone’s all up in arms about?"
I don't watch Fox News, and I certainly wouldn't call them "beloved." You make a lot of assumptions about people you don't even know.
By the way, I don't think you're an authoritarian. Authoritarians usually have a position of power over people, generally government officials,, and I don't think you are one. I just think you are someone who fell for an establishment narrative, is ignorant of the subject you are speaking about, and that you don't even value your own rights or freedoms.