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[00:00.38] Gareth: So, Rebecca, where are you from?

[00:01.89] Rebecca: I'm from America, actually, yeah.

[00:04.63] Gareth: I've never been to America. What's crime like in America?

[00:09.14] Rebecca: I think it probably depends a lot, city to city.

[00:12.89] It varies a lot, depending on the city.

[00:16.38] I actually lived for a while in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

[00:23.64] Living there, I never actually thought it was unsafe or anything, but looking back, it makes me go like, -

[00:34.89] We actually lived with that? That's insance! Like there are certain areas in town you just don't drive,

[00:42.14] because if you stop your car in that area, you know, it's extremely dangerous.

[00:48.38] Gareth: So, what's the most common kind of crime?

[00:51.63] Rebecca: Um, we had a lot of gang problems, a lot of robberies, a lot of guns, and there are a lot of shootings in Albuquerque, especially in the -

[01:03.89] I can't remember the name of the area now, but down in this one area, there were a lot.

[01:10.39] Down in the valley, there were a lot of gang problems.

[01:12.39] Gareth: Really? What's the best way to stop it, do you think?

[01:18.38] Rebecca: Oh, God, I have no idea. Like the only thing, we can say is, you know, - trust the police to do their job and save us all.

[01:26.64] But even just that, like to be honest, a lot of the problems in the States come from the fact that we're allowed to have guns.

[01:36.14] Gareth: Hm.

[01:37.14] Rebecca: And as an American, like yeah, it's part of our, you know, national right to have guns.

[01:41.64] And if you say, - You can't have guns, then it would be very upsetting, as an American,

[01:48.14] because it's like part of, you know, what built the country.

[01:52.14] Gareth: Yeah.

[01:53.38] Rebecca: But because we have so many guns, that makes crime a whole lot easier to do.

[02:01.88] Gareth: Yeah. In England, they've banned guns.

[02:07.38] You can only keep like a shotgun if you keep your shots away from the gun.

[02:15.38] But still, they smuggle pistols into the country -

[02:18.63] Rebecca: Yeah.

[02:20.88] Gareth: --and there are gangs that have guns.

[02:21.88] And if they don't have guns, they have knives.

[02:24.88] Rebecca: Right. So it's like I think maybe if they were to ban the guns in America, I wonder if it would help or just make it so like the normal people who have these weapons no longer have them,

[02:38.13] and the bad people who had the - (the bad people), the criminals, or whatever, you know, the gangs - who had the weapons before,

[02:45.64] I don't think they'll not have the weapons anymore.

[02:48.14] I think they'll still have them.

[02:49.64] Gareth: Yeah.

[02:50.89] Rebecca: They'll smuggle them in. Because they're doing all these other bad things, why would it matter? So, I don't know.

[02:55.88] it just leaves the innocent people a little more defenseless,

[02:59.14] but I don't - I don't know; I really don't know.