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The murder rate seems a lot lower than the US. Also the "murderers aren't concerned about gun laws" line is specious; a criminal isn't concerned about laws by definition - that doesn't invalidate the reasoning behind passing a law.

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Come to China. we have no gun and we have one of the least murder rate in the world.

We welcome you immigrate here, where people are illegal to possession any weapon other than kitchen knives, and you are fully protected.

Part of my family's muslim. I'll take my chances with the US and its guns, thanks.

Doesn't seem like China is rolling out the welcome mat for many folks.

In 2016, China issued 1,576 permanent residency cards. This was more than double what it had issued the previous year, but still roughly 750 times lower than the United States’ 1.2 million.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_China

Well, it's partially because police salaries are based on the rate of solved cases, no? Surely there is underreporting. And the homicide rate in Canada (which includes unintentional manslaughter) isn't much higher than the reported rate in China and we're fairly well armed by international standards:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_g...

so think about this. Do you want to give up your right of protecting yourself and be "protected" by the government? Or, do you want to keep your individual sovereignty and the right to say "no" to the government, meanwhile, also face the consequence that there are evil people and you might get hurt?

I would not want to live in China due to the government's authoritarian tendencies.

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