Has there been a single practical proposal put forward by advocates of gun control yet? I might have missed it.
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Replying to @PunksAndScribes @therealtonyleo and
Ok, now we're at the point that you admit that it's about a policy preference, not constitutionality. Good. I think your position makes little sense, given fact that other countries are doing OK w/ such prohibitions without loosing freedom, achieving much lower gun death rates.
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Replying to @AndresFreundPol @PunksAndScribes and
But yet murder rates and violent crime is higher.
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Replying to @jr88BRUTUS @PunksAndScribes and
Err, what? The US has a homicide rate > 5x higher.
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Replying to @AndresFreundPol @PunksAndScribes and
Depends what country you are comparing too. Of course US is going to be higher than a lot of countries because of population.
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Replying to @jr88BRUTUS @PunksAndScribes and
"Of course US is going to be higher than a lot of countries because of population." - that's why one compares gun death rates, rather than absolute numbers. And yes, you can find countries with higher gun death rates. They almost universally have a *way* worse economic state.
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Replying to @AndresFreundPol @PunksAndScribes and
US has the highest gun ownership in the world. In 2015 out of 218 countries they wasn't even in the top 100 in murder rates per capita.
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Those countries largely were warn torn and/or in really bad economic shape. If you correct for that it looks way more dire. Sure, the gun death rate per gun, rather per capita, in the US is very low. But that's not really interesting. FWIW, "my" numbers say US is in top ~40s.
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