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Do they? If they do, it's a much much smaller one than the US has.You fail to see that many of those regulations will not stop the criminals. Your industrialized nations still have a firearm related problem.
I'm not sure where this strawman keeps coming from. No one is arguing that gun control will result in a 100% reduction of violent crimes. You brought up the UK though. The homicide rate is 1.2 per 100,000. In the US, it's 4.7 per 100,000. Claiming that there'll still be robberies or something really doesn't resonate against a 75% drop in the homicide rate. You know what robbery victims still get to do that homicide victims don't? Be alive.I do not know how else to explain it to you. Obviously gun crime will go down if there are heavy regulations. Violent crime still exists and in some cases surpasses what we have here.
That's nice. My wife is from Peru. My brother-in-law was nearly abducted by the Shining Path when he was twelve. You know what no one from that family says? "Boy, we sure do need more guns". Regardless of your personal opinion, the data bears out that less guns is certainly a positive indicator towards a lower homicide rate in industrialized democracies. Let's say that again: Homicide rate. Just like the thread title says. Not "But people will still get beat up so we must need guns!" but homicide rate.I am extremely pleased that the people in this country love their guns to death. Again coming from a third wold country where guns are mostly prohibited, I can tell that less guns is not a solution to crime.
High ownership rate, sure. Also tremendously more regulated than the US. But, again, the Usual Suspects go ape irate if you imply that we should have national mandatory firearm registration, required gun permits and registration for private individual sales, strict requirements on who may carry guns in public, etc -- all things in Switzerland. If you're going to hold up Switzerland as a model, you should be demanding that we follow their lead in something beyond "Lots of guns!"Another country that is a great example is Switzerland ( I think it was it). High ownership rate of firearms, yet extremely low homicide rate. So.. Guns=/=Crime
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