Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There's no evidence that I'm aware of that guns reduce crime.
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.
If you reduce the guns and the ammo, you'll reduce the murders.
Very rarely do firearms restrictions affect criminals. They really only affect law-abiding citizens.
If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate.
You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don't enforce them, people are going to find a way to protect themselves. We need to recognize that bad people are doing bad things with these weapons. It's not the law-abiding citizens, it's not the person who uses it as a hobby.
The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose.
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
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.
Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally.