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Gun control does not work. Criminals don't care about breaking laws. They fear citizens with guns. .
Did you read the first post in this thread and my post from yesterday, just above?
I already did prove it.
Need a little more proof? Observe UN Stats on Murder rates: 1998-2000.
Notice Jamaica (No.3) where every legal firearm on the island was seized and dumped in the sea in the late 70s. You get life in prison for possession of a bullet only in Jamaica, and it is an island, with easily controled borders.
Notice also Mexico (no. 6), with extremely strict gun control....
Notice Switzerland, at No.56.....the Swiss are encouraged to own personal arms, and every Swiss male between 18 and 45 MUST keep a fully automatic assault rifle (that's a machine gun) and 200 rounds of ammunition in his home for national defense. Hmmmm. They do not rate at the top of firearms ownership because those weapons are owned by the state.
This being a UN site, Israel does not appear, but Israel's murder rate is miniscule, about like the Swiss, and Israelis are encouraged to carry arms.......
Notice Great Britain and Australia, both of whom banned handguns, and the vast majority of long guns...........right there with Canada..........BTW both of those nations had an increase in murders after the gun bans.
Notice the USA.....not first, but 24th, close to the middle.........
Notice Finland, right in the middle, enjoys one of the highest rates of firearms ownership in the world........second only to the USA.
#1
Colombia:0.617847 per 1,000 people
#2
South Africa:0.496008 per 1,000 people
#3
Jamaica:0.324196 per 1,000 people
#4
Venezuela:0.316138 per 1,000 people
#5
Russia:0.201534 per 1,000 people
#6
Mexico:0.130213 per 1,000 people
#7
Estonia:0.107277 per 1,000 people
#8
Latvia:0.10393 per 1,000 people
#9
Lithuania:0.102863 per 1,000 people
#10
Belarus:0.0983495 per 1,000 people
#11
Ukraine:0.094006 per 1,000 people
#12
Papua New Guinea:0.0838593 per 1,000 people
#13
Kyrgyzstan:0.0802565 per 1,000 people
#14
Thailand:0.0800798 per 1,000 people
#15
Moldova:0.0781145 per 1,000 people
#16
Zimbabwe:0.0749938 per 1,000 people
#17
Seychelles:0.0739025 per 1,000 people
#18
Zambia:0.070769 per 1,000 people
#19
Costa Rica:0.061006 per 1,000 people
#20
Poland:0.0562789 per 1,000 people
#21
Georgia:0.0511011 per 1,000 people
#22
Uruguay:0.045082 per 1,000 people
#23
Bulgaria:0.0445638 per 1,000 people
#24
United States:0.042802 per 1,000 people
#25
Armenia:0.0425746 per 1,000 people
#26
India:0.0344083 per 1,000 people
#27
Yemen:0.0336276 per 1,000 people
#28
Dominica:0.0289733 per 1,000 people
#29
Azerbaijan:0.0285642 per 1,000 people
#30
Finland:0.0283362 per 1,000 people
#31
Slovakia:0.0263303 per 1,000 people
#32
Romania:0.0250784 per 1,000 people
#33
Portugal:0.0233769 per 1,000 people
#34
Malaysia:0.0230034 per 1,000 people
#35
Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:0.0229829 per 1,000 people
#36
Mauritius:0.021121 per 1,000 people
#37
Hungary:0.0204857 per 1,000 people
#38
Korea, South:0.0196336 per 1,000 people
#39
Slovenia:0.0179015 per 1,000 people
#40
France:0.0173272 per 1,000 people
#41
Czech Republic:0.0169905 per 1,000 people
#42
Iceland:0.0168499 per 1,000 people
#43
Australia:0.0150324 per 1,000 people
#44
Canada:0.0149063 per 1,000 people
#45
Chile:0.014705 per 1,000 people
#46
United Kingdom:0.0140633 per 1,000 people
#47
Italy:0.0128393 per 1,000 people
#48
Spain:0.0122456 per 1,000 people
#49
Germany:0.0116461 per 1,000 people
#50
Tunisia:0.0112159 per 1,000 people
#51
Netherlands:0.0111538 per 1,000 people
#52
New Zealand:0.0111524 per 1,000 people
#53
Denmark:0.0106775 per 1,000 people
#54
Norway:0.0106684 per 1,000 people
#55
Ireland:0.00946215 per 1,000 people
#56
Switzerland:0.00921351 per 1,000 people
#57
Indonesia:0.00910842 per 1,000 people
#58
Greece:0.0075928 per 1,000 people
#59
Hong Kong:0.00550804 per 1,000 people
#60
Japan:0.00499933 per 1,000 people
#61
Saudi Arabia:0.00397456 per 1,000 people
#62
Qatar:0.00115868 per 1,000 people
Weighted average:0.1 per 1,000 people
DEFINITION: Total recorded intentional homicides, completed.
Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report
crime, than actual prevalence. Per capita figures expressed per 1,000
population.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_percap-crime-murders-per-capita
Need more convincing?
What this shows is no relationship between the prevalence of firearms and murder rates.....therefore, a free society should allow relatively unfettered access to arms.......seen by many as a cornerstone of political freedom.