Reply #15: How do you answer my claim that more guns does not equal more crime?

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I agree that there are too many factors in the violent crime rate formula to simply state that the fact that there are more firearms in civilian hands has caused a drop in the crime rate.

However recent firearms sales in our nation have been at an all time high.


source: http://www.ammoland.com/2011/02/21/usa-the-most-heavily-armed-country-earth/

And the violent crime rate has been falling.


source: http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/glance/cv2.cfm

If an increase in the number of firearms would by itself cause an increase in violent crime the data would show it.