Reply #39: I am not saying that more guns led to lower crime [View All]

[hack89]

an impossible argument to make.

Here is the question you need to answer: What proportion of gun violence is committed by people that are legally entitled to own and carry guns? I suspect it is the vast majority - if not, then you would expect gun violence to increase as legal gun ownership increases. But it hasn't. So, if the real problem is criminals using illegal guns to commit violent crime then any law aimed at legal gun ownership is useless. In a nut shell - go after the criminals and leave us legal gun owners alone.

As for those other countries, lets not forget that our murder rate is skewed by drug violence. Those other countries have much more enlighten drug and social policies - they do not have large ghettos racked with constant drug violence. In Rhode Island, where I live, gun deaths and violence are tightly concentrated in the poorest urban neighborhoods. Moving from such a neighborhood just 10 miles to a new neighborhood could statistically drop your chances of getting shot to near zero. Criminals and drug gangs are the real problem - lets solve that first.

Gun violence is plummeting - instead of the CDC I suggest the FBI. They put out detail crime report every year:

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/ucr