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| Topic | florida gov rick scott said they'd consider anything to stop gun violence in FL |
| Selenara 02/21/18 6:34:31 PM #34: | darkknight109 posted... Debatable and not universally true. Take Australia, for instance: This chart is misleading, because it doesn't show that there was already a downward trend prior to the enactment of gun control. There are other factors besides gun control laws that affect numbers like these. Or Canada (last major gun law tightening was in 1991): Same story here, but it does show that there was already a downward trend present and that it was low to begin with. The gun death homicide rate was less than 1 per 100,000 people according to this chart, which is fairly low. Again, Canada didn't have a significant gun violence problem prior to the enactment of the law. Or, within the states, how about Conneticut? After the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting they tightened their gun laws and gun deaths dropped nearly 30%. 30% can be misleading. Do you have have some hard numbers or per capita numbers? Or studies that showed a link between the new laws and the decline in gun deaths? ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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