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Originally Posted by Azure
You want to argue freer access to weapons? Washington DC has banned firearms since 1976, and their crime rate is 8x the national average, while other states that allow CCW have very low crime rates?
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Good grief. Have you seen photon's sig regarding correlation and causality.
There are socio-economic situations (large urban centers with a disproportionate difference between the haves and have-nots with a very ethnically diverse population, not all of whom get along....) that plague the situation in D.C.. Comparing crime in D.C. vs Montana is ridiculous.
Washington D.C. also has the highest number of civil servants in America. Are you going to claim now that civil servants are the cause of violent gun crime?
Edit: Postal workers may be further proof to the latter theory.