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[–]Blackbrownfreestuff 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Thats because they have less niggers. Low nigger population zones in the USA with guns have the same low murder rates. It's the niggers, not the guns.

[–]ActuallyNot 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Thats because they have less niggers. Low nigger population zones in the USA with guns have the same low murder rates.

There's a few things you should do in order to make this into a reasonable argument.

1) Get the grammar right. Blacks are countable, so it's fewer not less. People will wonder if you are simply afraid of a black who can spell "job" taking your job, rather than you having a sound argument.
2) Avoid the racial slur. People will assume that you're suffering from racism, rather than having a sound argument.
3) Provide your evidence. Provide your reasoning. Your point isn't obvious. For instance, This table shows that slightly less than half (Single victim, single offender, federal) homicides are perpetrated by blacks. If that extrapolates to all homicides, the rate for other races is still somewhere around 3.9 per 100,000, which is still 2.4 times the "low" murder rates in Australia.

[–]jet199[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

The fewer vs less thing is a myth.

Both have been used interchangeable in English for a thousand years or more.

It was only the middle class Victorians who tries to make English fit with Latin who came up with a different jargon usage.

[–]ActuallyNot 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The fewer vs less thing is a myth.

You're also using "myth" with a unique meaning here.

Both have been used interchangeable in English for a thousand years or more.

Not exactly. But also irrelevant.

They were never interchangeable, but prior to a couple of centuries ago, you could use less for fewer. You couldn't use fewer for less.

But this is irrelevant. We don't speak the English of 1000 years ago. Prior to 1066 is Old English. When a modern reader reads old English:

Hwæt. We Gardena in geardagum,
þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon,
hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon.

They don't think "ooh, look how they used 'fewer'". They think "what language is that?"

It was only the middle class Victorians who tries to make English fit with Latin who came up with a different jargon usage.

Yes. The rules of English are often decided upon. Nonetheless they are.