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Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.

— Ted Nugent

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

There are too many guns in the hands of people that shouldn't have guns. There is too much gun violence in America.

— Terry McAuliffe

Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.

— Thomas Sowell

Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

— Marion Barry

Aside from the murders, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

— Marion Barry

Gun violence has cost us too many political leaders, and hardly ever the worst ones.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Let me share some facts with you about the law in most of our country. California is in many ways a little different from the rest of the world, and California has better gun laws than many states, although California's need to be improved.

— Michael D. Barnes

That guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government.

— Lyn Nofziger

Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of Americans are graduating from college. Home ownership rates are higher. And the violent crime rate has decreased.

— Cliff Stearns

America has a right to the Second Amendment, but the people of America have a right to safety and the prevention of gun violence in their community.

— Sheila Jackson Lee

✗Opposing Perspectives

Crime is actually less in places where people own guns. Washington, D.C., is a case in point. It has the strictest gun laws, but who has the highest crime rate in the country? Washington, D.C.

— Luke Scott