RE: Strict gun control in france.
November 17, 2015 at 3:05 pm
(This post was last modified: November 17, 2015 at 3:07 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 17, 2015 at 2:55 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(November 17, 2015 at 11:57 am)CapnAwesome Wrote: It's amazing how someone can say something like this after a terrible mass shooting in a country with strict gun control. Every time there is a mass shooting in the US people say how we need to ban guns to prevent tragedies like this is the future. Every time.
Are you arguing that countries with stricter gun-control laws don't tend to have lower murder rates? Take a look at this list.
A better argument, Thump, would be that strict guns laws are not the -cause- of low murder rates. That would be a better argument, because they aren't...or at least no one has managed to establish that they are (and not for lack of trying), while the field of american gun law and gun homicide plainly demonstrates that there is no causal relationship. Might be different elsewhere, but we don't write other countries laws, and we aren't looking to solve other countries problems by writing laws here.
For data supporting this, you need look no further than the CDC and FBI. One, no longer allowed to research (wtf)..and the other no longer interested in enforcing.....(semi-wtf).
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