Gun ownership has zero to do with rape or car theft.
The reason Alaska has a high sexual assault rate is the same reason that S. Dakota is right behind us (and in fact we're both nearly double the rest of the US,) because of the natives. -
Why Rape Is Much More Common In Alaska
Laws /we/ make (at least in Alaska, not 100% sure about S.Dakota) can't really change that because the Native Council deals with their own crime, they only call in the US Gov when they're tired of/unable to deal with the problem - and frankly their opinions on how native women are treated are not exactly up to "modern standards" and especially when you add alcohol abuse, which affects, sorry to say, the majority of natives - though at least there the villages attempt to do something about it by going "dry."
This is a legit "consequence" of accepting 'multi-culturism' frankly, when you don't demand/require other cultures to adapt to American moral standards, then they stick with their own cultural values, which includes how they perceive and treat women differently in this case. You'll also find that most native women are essentially not allowed to work in native villages. You'll find that they, and the children as well, are still kind of considered "property." IE May wants a "divorce" from her alcoholic husband due to domestic violence, Joe will beat the shit out of her for it and half the village shrugs and figures she "deserved" it because she wanted a divorce in the first place.
Its like... how many times have ya'll lower 48ers had to detain natives because they took down a moose with knives and gutted it in central park, alarming/grossing out the commuters? In the village, violence as a whole is actually considered a "good" trait. After all a native man who can take out a moose with a knife would be desirable there. In the city though, his capability for violence is a nuisance. In the village a woman's place, children's place, is listening to their husband/father, and that's actually a survival thing; when dad says get the **** inside, you don't cop an attitude asking 'why' without consequence - usually along the lines of a predator dragging you into the woods as a snack.
More fun facts to help you non-thinking types with this concept of how stats aren't everything, lets look at some of the reasons why Anchorage itself has such high "violent crime" rates? So our worst year ever; 28 murders, 580 sexual assaults. If you stayed out of two areas of town (slums) and weren't around the "dirty" (scummy) bars at closing time, you probably didn't have any problems with 'violent crime' (Outliers being domestic violence, usually involving drugs/drunkenness and not the first time Sally got slapped around by Jason...) Anyway, chance of getting killed is 1 in 100+ but that's really only if you're dealing drugs. What's funny, to me anyway, is that they include "arson" as a violent crime in many figures; arson... which includes the homeless in Anchorage starting a fire to stay warm. Yeah, LOTS of homeless folks are lighting "illegal" fires all over the place all the damn time, it's called survival - duh. But crime stats don't pay attention to the reality that 'arson' in those cases isn't really a threat to anyone, they just write it down and the stat mappers have no clue so they include it in the stats.
Folks really only bring up this shit when they're losing..., more precisely, folks on this particular site, when talking about the gun control debate, bring it up when losing - most other sites lefties have more intellectual honesty surprisingly. Real Alaskan's know what the problems are, they know who the problems are, and they know where to stay away from - and what time of day to stay away from problem areas, and other "common sense" things like don't leave your running car unlocked (or ya know, park in the ******* garage so you don't have to do that at all) and have a dog to deter house robbers. It's like my chance of getting harmed in Anchorage, even without my bodyguard or husband, is basically zero - I don't go to places where I know the natives hang out (the native hospital, beans cafe, and the areas they make their homeless camps) I also don't go where the drug dealers and gangs claim is their "turf" (dense apartment areas where their stupid clientele live - Fairview and Mtn. View.) I don't go to the malls that don't provide armed security; Northway Mall and the Sears Mall (Diamond Mall used to be on there but they stepped up their game so they didn't lose business.) I'm not running around out there in the middle of the night, I'm not hanging out on the streets after the bars let out at 3am, I don't get drunk and get into bad situations. Common sense is far, far more reliable indicator of if you're going to have trouble in a place than the stats portrayal. ~shrug~ I suppose people visiting who don't know any better might stumble into a homeless camp and get raped/sexually assaulted, but if they stick within walking distance of the tourist areas and stick around the tourist parks our officers patrol them heavily all summer; we do our best to protect "foreigners" to the state heh
