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Exactly - there were only 4 shooting in last 30 days in TL. That is less than two per week.

[1] jun 12: https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/sanfrancisco/news/early-morning-...

[2] may 22 phttps://sfstandard.com/criminal-justice/two-people-shot-in-f...

[3] Jun 2 https://www.ktvu.com/news/man-wounded-in-broad-daylight-shoo...

[4] jun 5 https://neighbors.ring.com/n/Z1elNLxc2Z

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When I think of dangerous street people, I don't think guns. I think knives. The times I've been threatened by street people, they showed me or made reference to knives. A gun seems like an expensive liability to such a person, which could be sold or traded for a substantial amount of drugs but could get them into a lot of trouble if they were caught with it. A knife though is worth basically nothing and won't get them into very much trouble if they're caught with it either. So a low rate of shootings doesn't give me much consolation. I'm more interested in the rate of stabbings and beatings, robberies and assaults... violent crime generally not specifically those done with guns. Why even single out one particular kind of weapon if you're trying to reassure somebody that a neighborhood is safe? That's weird, particularly since the people who are cause for concern are unlikely to have that kind of weapon in the first place.

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

I’m glad you support gun confiscation and across-the-board illegalization tho! So do I, so we have something to agree about :). Have a nice evening!

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