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> So no, stricter gun control laws do not reduce gun crimes. There is solid evidence against that point of view, and has been discussed/disproven numerous time

• tremon 10y ago
  many countries in Europe with similar population densities can manage low rates of mass shooting homicide True... via gun control laws ... but this is unproven I think. Europe also has much better social security and mental health care, to name just a few confounding factors.
  • King-Aaron 10y ago
    but this is unproven I think. Europe also has much better social security and mental health care, to name just a few confounding factors. I do agree, to be honest
• at-fates-hands 10y ago
  There is also solid evidence that when you have more guns, you have less crime - something I pointed out in my original post. Another Harvard study concluded the same thing: http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_KatesMauseronline.pdf http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_Kate... While American gun ownership is quite high, many other developed nations (e.g., Norway, Finland, Germany, France, Denmark) have high rates of gun ownership," said the report. "These countries, however, have murder rates as low or lower than many developed nations in which gun ownership is much rarer. For example, Luxembourg, where handguns are totally banned and ownership of any kind of gun is minimal, had a murder rate nine times higher than Germany in 2002."