Maybe so. Mind you, I don't think that they ever had gun ownership equivalent of the US. After all, their police don't traditionally carry guns.
But what about Japan, Australia, and other European countries. And as a friend said (he was working on crime stats) - these are very unreliable. The less work the police do, the less crime is recorded, and hence (statistically speaking) the less crime there is.
But yeah.. Crime stats are all we have to go on I suppose.
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