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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
so are you trying to say that gun laws have no effect on crime? or that guns are the cause of gun crime?
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No. I'm referring to what roachboy hinted at: The use of statistics can draw any sort of conclusion you want if you know how to use them. Do you know how hard it would be to accurately demonstrate the effect gun ownership/laws have on crime? If it were easy, there would be little room for debate.
Statistics can benefit both sides of the issue. You can show me where gun laws have had detrimental effects on crime rates, but I could show you stats demonstrating that over half of women killed by guns were murdered by an intimate partner. Where does stat-flinging get us here?