(December 27, 2012 at 12:38 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Not what the data bears out. The "murder problem" for example will still be a murder problem, regardless of what instrument is leveraged in it's commission, and we don't have any reason to assume that our murder rates would drop if gun ownership dropped.
Actually we have quite the opposite, I've pointed it out several times, and been thoroughly ignored by the anti gun crowd on here, but the UK's murder rate went up when they enacted their current gun laws in 1963 and rose throughout the next decades. If guns are this huge contributing factor in murder, I'm still waiting for the explanation on that one.
http://www.murderuk.com/misc_crime_stats.html
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