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You would predict that American states with higher gun ownership see _____ gun homicides, per capita

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24.2%
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21.6%
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54.2%

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washingtonexaminer.comNo, states with higher gun ownership don't have more gun murdersIn sifting through the facts about the gun debate, beware of the misleading use of statistics.

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Possibly, but also possibly not. You could argue that self-defense will lower homicide rates only when enough of the population owns guns to actually start deterring people, and that high gun ownership states still don't have enough guns to lower the homicide rates.

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In general I think I agree. A world with half-gun ownership is the most fatal; no-gun and total-gun ownership are probably much less fatal, but I do suspect no-gun ownership is less fatal than total-gun ownership

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