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Comment by SwellJoe | original | Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras
[−]SwellJoe · 2026-08-30 Sun 14:56 UTC · link
There are people with guns both in the rural areas and the urban areas, and capital punishment is not restricted to cases in rural areas (in fact, it's much more likely to be sought against black or brown defendents for crimes in urban areas).

If guns and capital punishment reduces crime, it doesn't matter whether the crime happens in rural or urban areas. If it works, Texas, the whole damned state, should have remarkably low crime, but that's not the case at all.

You're having a different conversation than the one I'm having.