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Originally Posted by Da Munk
You're mixing statistics. Less guns is obviously going to reduce the number of gun deaths, it doesn't necessarily mean that it will reduce murder rates. There are other ways to kill a person than shooting them. Countries with stricter gun control laws will obviously have fewer gun deaths and they may even have lower murder rates overall, but the point is that there isn't any conclusive evidence that the gun control laws themselves are the reason for the lower murder rates.
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Ok, maybe you are right there is no evidence that gun control laws will lower murder rates, but IMHO everything points to that. Evidence or not it seems pretty logical to me that fewer guns on the streets will lower gun related crimes. Sure, as previously stated anyone that wants to get a gun for using it in a murder will, but it goes without saying that having more control over guns will make it a lot harder for that person to get it.