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Originally Posted by GlennD
Firearms account for 68% of the murders in the US, according to the US Bureau of Justice. Oddly enough, the areas with the most strict gun laws (Washington DC, Detroit) also top the murder charts. |
It might be more useful to correlate crime with (perceived) income equality in a district, or with socio-economic status charts (I'm not sure what has a bigger effect, the fact that differences are so large or the fact that the people are just generally poor and unlikely to get out of it through 'legal' means).
The only reason those areas felt the need to implement these laws was to curb crime, not to foster it. Sane people don't say "hey, there's a ban on gun ownership, let's go kill puppies", nor will 65yo shop owners stand much of a chance of winning when they come up against 18yos with one third their reaction time.
But sure, blame it on the gun control laws.