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Originally Posted by Aleks
And you're correct, gun control has little to do with this but the ban gun crowd came out as usual and started an offensive wage had to defend
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Seems to me stringent gun control makes this situation far less likely. It is odd that in places like Chicago when they had gun control their murder rate went way down compared with other major cities. Perhaps guns contribute to killing people. Perhaps even a gun had something to do with how many people were killed and injured in Colorado.
Firearm homicides in the US are about 6 times more likely to occur than in Canada. Non gun homicides in the states are 1.5 times more likely to occur. So it is not necessarily that the Americans are a more violent people, they just have easier access to the most efficient killing vehicles (guns). The US is in the company of Columbia, Guatamala and Slovakia in terms of the percentage increase of gun homicides vis-a-vis non gun related homicides. Every other country in the world has more non-gun homicides than gun homicides, mainly because they have less access to guns. But this also means that every other western nation has a lower overall rate of homicide because all things being equal guns are a more efficient killing mechanism than a knife or a baseball bat. But I suppose people can continue to say that gun control has nothing to do with gun murders, that these people would kill just as much under a stricter gun control situation, but that is simply not true.