[@Brithwyr] Well the tricky thing about poverty. Is that the poor will never go away, even if extreme poverty is getting lowered every single year around the world because of the free market system. Now the violence problems aren't all the same in every place. And I only know about where I live. But the problem, isn't guns. Nor poverty. It's gang violence.

But it's actually not the case for other crime statistically either. (To paraphrase from articles.) "During the Great Depression, levels of crime actually dropped. During the 1920s, when life was free and easy, so was crime. During the 1930s, when the entire American economy fell, crime was nearly non-existent. During 1960s, unemployment is under four percent (4%), there’s no inflation, the economy is fizzing and violent crime soars.

In the 60's in Britain, where they had an extreme social safety net, crime rates other than murder are significantly higher than in the United States. Actually, the highest rate of car theft in the world is, Switzerland. Next comes New Zealand. Then Britain, Sweden, Australia, Denmark, Scotland, Italy, Canada and Norway. The U.S. isn't even in the top ten. (Also, 2007–2008 the Great Recession. And what happens? Crime continues to fall. So there is no consistent relationship between general economic conditions and violent crime.)"

So it feels a little cheap, and a little unfair to assume standards of low expectations that 'those poor people' "must" be committing all these violent crimes because poor. I was fairly poor at a time. I never shot up a school or joined a gang. Of course, I'm not saying that you presuming such. I don't want to speak non-generally. But even generally speaking, poverty is not biggest contributing cause of crime. Might be a symptom of it, but most deadly school shooters (for a small instance) come from fatherless homes. That's just another piece of the puzzle.