Reply #77: Your first point suggest that low murder rates/high ownership of guns [View All]

[CTyankee]

is not the predominant paradigm. That pretty much destroys the argument that the correlation proves some sort of causation in this "poll."

As for "political fear," I'm not sure what exactly this fear was. If a nation's citizenry votes for representatives to write laws regulating citizen use of guns, they might fear social disruption, civil violence, destruction of property and human lives and have thought out a way to allow their citizens to own guns but with rules. Consent of the governed, and all that...