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In reply to the discussion: The CDC study on guns...shut down. [View all]krispos42
(49,445 posts)100% of all murders are BY people.
People don't murder because they have a gun. They murder for other reasons and USE a gun... or a knife, or a club, or whatever.
16,000 people a year are killed. Nearly all of them die in single-incident homicide crime scenes (about 95%) so that means we have about 15,000 people a year who murder somebody else... in other words, we generate 15,000 murderers annually.
Take away the guns, the 11,000 or so murderers who would normally use a gun will most likely use "something else".
Also, our current non-gun homicide rate is the same or higher than the total homicide rate in most "civilized" countries.
If you want to lower gun homicide rates AND the total homicide rates, legalize drugs. Banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazine will have no discernible impact on crime but will have an enormous and negative impact on politics.