Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: 'Stand your ground' promotes violence [View all]friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)Ironically, you are making a mirror-image version of the "Republican/right wing anti-gun control" argument. Their claim is that less restriction of legal guns will lower crime rates, without
considering socioeconomic factors. From you we get "More restriction of legal guns will lower crime rates, without considering socioeconomic factors.
I'd be so bold as to say gun laws are almost irrelevant when you live in some poverty-ridden hole, whether urban or rural.
Name a city or county in the US with a high murder rate and you will be naming a place with poor schools, little economic opportunity, and high inequality of income, and usually a
corrupt power structure.
You know what might be a good test? Someplace like Cleveland, Ohio-which had fairly restrictive gun laws up until a few years ago, when the State of Ohio passed a preemption law.
Suddenly, many of their restrictions on guns were gone- and TPTB there were not a bit happy about that.
I'm going to dredge the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports and see what happened to Cleveland's violent crime rates...