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RE: Gun control in the U.K. - 3/26/2014 12:05:34 AM

crazyml

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ORIGINAL: BamaD

How can you claim that gun control makes you safer if the murder rate is the same.

Well, as it happens, someone with a head for stats could find a dozen reasons to explain that.

That said, I don't think that gun control will have had a very significant impact on murder rates in the UK, because gun ownership was never high enough to drive the figures upwards in the first place.

So, while your statement is logically incorrect, I do agree that you cannot use the UK experience of gun control as evidence of gun control reducing murder rates.

But, it is true that gun-related crime has been falling year on year for a decade.

Murder rates generally are declining over time. Violent crime is currently in decline.

This is all based on data from the Office of National Statistics, so I'm curious about the source of some of the more outlandish claims with respect to murder rates, gun crime etc that have been made on this thread.

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