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Take Australia as another example of a country where nobody is allowed to have guns (well they are but they need a good reason). The intentional homicide rate i
by Veratyr 9y ago
Take Australia as another example of a country where nobody is allowed to have guns (well they are but they need a good reason). The intentional homicide rate is 1/5th of what it is in the US.
Cherry picking examples doesn't really bring much to the discussion.
- Turing_Machine 9y agoThe anti-gun side cites Australia all the time. You don't get to accuse him of "cherry picking" for citing a counterexample. If you pull up the list of countries with the highest murder rates, you'll discover that virtually all of them have stringent gun control laws.
- slamdance 9y ago...and strangely enough they have less than 1/10th the population as the US. There are more people in the greater-Los Angeles area than there are in the entire continent of Australia
- Veratyr 9y agoThe rates I'm comparing are per 10k people, so they take this into account.
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