My apologies. As you were using the murder rate as the example, I ran with it. IMHO, a overall crime rate decline could quite easily be largely attributed to a gun ban, along with increased police presence and stiffer overall penalties.
Your argument appears double-sided - first you say gun bans
don't help, and then you quote numbers that
support the idea that a gun ban
does help - and claim that doesn't prove anything. What data makes you believe that it ISN'T helping? It certainly isn't hurting! If it's not hurting and it's not stopping long guns, why not institute changes like this country wide?
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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
Please look at the rest of my statement, not focus on just one question.
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