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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
Yet again you have a problem with correlation and causality. You infer that tighter gun control has led to more murders. I think the rise in gang membership and growth in the drug trade *might* have something to do with the situation. Just maybe?
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No, I infer that tighter gun control hasn't helped to reduce the amount of gun crime. I've already said that twice now.
If rise in gang membership and growth in the drug trade has lead to more murders, and more gun crime, how does banning guns work to reduce membership in gangs and the growth in the drug trade?
My numbers are from the Dominion Bureau of Statistics and Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics.
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from 1974 to 1993 the Canadian homicide rate was roughly 2.4 murders per 100,000 persons and from 1946 to 1965 it was about 1.1 per 100,000.
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The information is from a book, so I can't link to it. And the StatsCan website only does homicide rates back to 1996 far as I can tell.
Either way, your information is probably correct. All I'm saying is that strict gun control has not equaled in a drop in homicide rates with a firearm. Sometimes the homicide rate has gotten worse, sometimes its gotten better.
Showing that strict gun control hasn't necessarily helped to reduce gun crime.
Of course, maybe the gun control laws in Canada are structured the wrong way. You can't really account for that though.