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Originally Posted by Shnabdabber
I'd explain it by pointing to the gang issue, something that clearly biased 25 year old article completely misses.
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You failed completely to understand the point of the article. The study compared crime in Seattle and Vancouver over a six year period. During that time, the socio-economic conditions of both cities were nearly identical, and rates of crime of all types were very similar (e.g. roughly the same number of muggings, assaults, burglaries, etc.). Yet despite these similarities, Seattle had nearly twice as many homicides over the course of the study, almost all of them committed with a handgun.