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Joined: Apr 2006
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Which is why countries without guns but with lots of cameras are safer places to be.
There are as many countries that have high gun ownership and low crime rates as there are low gun ownership and high crime rate. Pick a statistic, any statistic. You can definitely prove whatever point you are trying to make with statistics!
" There are lies, damn lies and then statistics." 
In case you NEED some statistics, here's the Bureau of Justice statistics page where they compare victim surveys versus police records between the US and England. Interesting if nothing else.
If guns were a factor in high crimes and homicides, Switzerland would have the highest crime rate in the world. Why doesn't it? The answer is that guns are inanimate objects. They do not cause crime, criminals do. The fact is that crimes are caused by human beings not inanimate objects. Did you know that automobiles are involved in far more fatalities than are guns, yet nobody argues that they should be banned. The reason is that people acknowledge that car accidents are caused by people not by cars.
Crime is a social phenomenon and is not determined by whether there are guns available to honest citizens or not. Most of the cause of high crime statistics in the US is basically due to extremely high crime rates in the poorer neighborhood where almost all cases do not involve "legally bought or registered firearms". Lack of legal gun ownership would have an insignificant impact on the matter. If you subtract the high crime rates from these areas from national statistics you will find that most of the crime rates in the US are comparable to that of European countries with tough gun laws. Gun control and/or the absence of firearms and has nothing to do with crime.
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