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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
You cannot stop all murders. That does not mean that you can't reduce them. Reducing guns reduces murders. Why NOT do that instead of claiming people will then stab people at anywhere near the same rate?
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I have no clue if there's any use for this in this topic, but I got bored after my exam today and made this using UN Crime data and a 2007 report by Cambridge estimating small arms ownership rates. The crime data is 12 years old, so please take it with a grain of salt:
The blue dots are sample developed nations. The red is USA.
The top graph asks whether more guns strongly impact how many gun deaths occur annually in the nation. It seems to be not a strong function, if at all. However, the US does stand as an interesting outlier there. This is repeated on the second version. The second graph details basically whether or not having more firearms sparks a "herd mentality" to shift how guns are used. Again, no trend, but the US seems to stand high up in rate of violence...the other outlier is Slovenia.