Is there any point in continually re-posting the same stats and studies in every thread? I hardly think so. One of the countries you mentioned Ryan, has the highest rate of gun ownership in western Europe. One country you did not has effectively eliminated private gun ownership and yet their murder rate is twice that of the us and then some. The relationship that so many assume to be there simply is not.
"Obvious steps" to reduce that number would be based on what, doing something that fairly broad and overarching studies have shown does not have the intended effect? I hardly think so. Howsabout we do something that works?
"Obvious steps" to reduce that number would be based on what, doing something that fairly broad and overarching studies have shown does not have the intended effect? I hardly think so. Howsabout we do something that works?
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