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Originally Posted by EuP";p="
Looking at real-world examples, criminalizing firearms doesn't tend to make people safer...Britain and Australia, for example, have both seen an increase in crimes wherein firearms are employed in the years after banning most private ownership and having law-abiding citizens turn in their arms, and (as of 2000, the last year I obtained statistics for), you were more likely to be the victim of a violent crime in those two countries than the States...it wasn't that way before firearms were banned.
Unless one wishes to suggest some fundamental difference in culture between Anglosphere nations that would account for this in particular, I believe the evidence is clear than disarming the populace leads to more violence and crime.
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If the evidence in such studies is clear and incontrovertible, then you would appear to have logic and science on your side. In which case this would be a short debate.
I don't have enough interest in the subject to go dig up the studies. I'm willing to bet, though, that the evidence is at least a little murky. I'm not saying that you aren't correct on all counts; you may well be. I just doubt it's that open and shut.
08-23-2004, 08:08 AM
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