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I seems reasonable to expect the police force of a country where the populace is heavily armed to shoot more people.
by pawelmurias 4y ago
I seems reasonable to expect the police force of a country where the populace is heavily armed to shoot more people.
- eru 4y agoI don't know. Maybe? We can look at statistics from eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_guns_per_capita_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_g... and compare with statistics on police shootings.
- Clubber 4y agoThere has been a downward trend in gun ownership since at least the 1980s. https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/gun-ownership.html https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/gun-ownership.html https://www.norc.org/PDFs/GSS%20Reports/GSS_Trends%20in%20Gun%20Ownership_US_1972-2014.pdf https://www.norc.org/PDFs/GSS%20Reports/GSS_Trends%20in%20Gu...