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Originally Posted by White Doors
Many posters here were arguing for the banning of guns in Canada. I showed that there were no correlation to a reduction of gun crime n other countries that have done that. I'm not arguing that more guns make is safer, but certaily there is more evidence that they do than there is for the opposite.
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You are of course forgetting about the neighbour to the south, whose weak gun laws are accompanied by high rates of gun violence.
If anything, the data are inconclusive. I disagree that there is "more evidence" that guns make us safer. There isn't very good evidence either way, and it's so hard to generalize because crime rates are dependent on so many social factors other than guns. It would be interesting to see whether violent crime depends more on social inequality--that might be kind of revealing; I wonder if any studies have been done about that.
Also--and I don't want to put words in anyone's mouth--I'm not sure anyone was advocating the "banning" of guns altogether. I could be wrong, but I think most people want to see strict controls of guns, not banning of guns--though an argument could be made that a gun whose sole purpose is to kill a person probably doesn't belong in our just society.