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Deep13
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Mon Apr-16-07 03:04 PM
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The fact is that the US cities with the worse rates of violent crime have the most restrictive gun control. One does not cause the other. Rather those places have reacted to the violence by dumping on everyones rights. (Kind of like what Bush did to civil rights in the name of safety.) America's violent crime rate has been declining for decades too. America is a more violent society than Canada and always has been. There are many, many reasons for this and gun ownership is just one of them if it is a reason at all. It may be the effect and not the cause.
"...most of them by their own hand."
So you're including suicide in this? I hardly think that is fair.
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