Posted on 02/16/2008 6:55:11 PM PST by em2vn
The world abounds in instruments with which people can kill each other. Is the widespread availability of one of these instruments, firearms, a crucial determinant of the incidence of murder? Or do patterns of murder and/or violent crime reflect basic socio-economic and/or cultural factors to which the mere availability of one particular form of weaponry is irrelevant?
This article examines a broad range of international data that bear on two distinct but interrelated questions: first, whether widespread firearm access is an important contributing factor in murder and/or suicide, and second, whether the introduction of laws that restrict general access to firearms has been successful in reducing violent crime, homicide or suicide. Our conclusion from the available data is that suicide, murder and violent crime rates are determined by basic social, economic and/or cultural factors with the availability of any particular one of the worlds myriad deadly instrument being irrelevant
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It obviously didn’t work in IL, NYC, DC, the UK or Australia.
Prince Charles I would believe. I don’t know enough about William to say so.
You mean you don’t want the politicians to try again and again and again until they get r done?
No, I don’t want politicians to take guns away from law-abiding citizens. At all, in any case.
Politicians aren’t interested in what you think. Get used to it.
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