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Spider Jerusalem

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4. Other countries have fewer gun deaths because other countries have fewer guns, full stop.

Reply to Mrdrboi (Original post)

Tue Jun 24, 2014, 06:00 AM

Jun 2014

There have been studies; there is a direct relation between the number of guns per capita and the number of gun deaths per capita. More guns = more people being killed by guns.

Other developed countries have significantly lower murder rates than the US (which may be because guns make killing easier, or may be because of social factors unique to the US).

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