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  • Those poverty levels are not remotely comparable. Haitian minimum wage is something like $150 per month.

    You can be poor as hell in MS and still own a gun. Hell, you may have not paid a dime for it if inherited. If you’re poor as hell in Haiti, you’re selling that gun to eat. If it doesn’t get stolen out your shack.

    And if you still think you have a “gotcha”, we’re talking about murder by gun. Want to talk murder in general?

    In 2023, the number of intentional homicides per 100,000 inhabitants in Haiti was estimated at 40.85

    It’s half that in Mississippi, the worst in the US.


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    The “use” is keeping 26-million ignorant, uneducated and otherwise backward people corralled.

    I can’t imagine how Kim’s regime could be toppled without a tsunami of human misery. It would take 20-years to even begin integrating those folks into the modern world and I have no idea how it could be done gradually.

    Add to that, their neighbors have zero desire to work on this.