NRA propaganda? Nope. Studies
by the UN and our own Centers for Disease Control.
“Norway, Finland, Germany, France and Denmark, which have high
rates of gun ownership, have low murder rates. On the other hand, in
Luxembourg, where handguns are totally banned and ownership of any kind of gun
is minimal, the murder rate is nine times higher than Germany. Their source of
information? The United Nations' International Study on Firearms Regulation,
published by the UN's Economic and Social Council and the United Nations
Commission on Crime-Prevention and Criminal Justice.
“When Kates and Mauser compared England with the United States,
they found ’a negative correlation,’ that is, ‘where firearms are most dense
violent crime rates are lowest, and where guns are least dense, violent crime
rates are highest.’ There is no consistent significant positive association
between gun ownership levels and violence rates.”
A longish read, but worth the
time.
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