Quote Originally Posted by oladub View Post
...MA has the fifth lowest murder statistics of the fifty states; almost as low as Canada's. Boston and MA are notoriously Democratic. Therin lies some hope. If other major cities and perhaps states could model MA, perhaps some of these gun numbers would go down.
I lived in Cambridge, MA. IIRC the Boston metropolitan area has the highest concentration of college students, college graduates, colleges, and universities of any city in the world. It seems like every other person is an intellectual or scientist. Maybe we ought to have more educated people?