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lawodevolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-11 01:41 PM
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22. Yes, you have no data and evidence to support the false belief that gun control reduces crime
Nigeria has 1% the rate of civilian gun ownership as the USA or in other words the USA has about 100 times more civilian owned guns per capita than Nigeria (Haiti and Jamaica have even fewer guns). It is obvious that violence is a problem that gun control cannot solve and there is a possibility that gun control can facilitate increases in violent crime. If you observe gun ownership rates and violent crime rates of different nations you'll see that the most violent nations have low gun ownership rates while all nations with high gun ownership rate have relatively low violent crime rate.

If you are correct that more guns results in more violence, I'm sure you can come up with one (none war zone) nation with high civilian gun ownership rate that also has a high rate of violent crime and murder, then I'll bother to show you the data. Even if you find a nation with both high gun ownership rate and high murder rate tha isn't a war zone the trend still shows that low gun ownership rate correlates to high murder rate.
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