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Re:FBI director calls lack of data on police shootings "ridi... by lawpoop on Thursday October 08, 2015 @12:52PM (#10353975)
"...do you really think Americans would become more peaceful???"

No, but they would probably become less deadly.

(But, without a gun, people might not be so emboldened as to physically attack someone at close range. Violence might go down.)

Around the time of one of the mass shootings in the past 5 years, my conservative relatives were posting on facebook a story about a mass-stabbing. They asked rhetorically, "Why aren't we calling for a ban on knives?" Well, the question sort of answered itself-- no one had died from the attacks.

Re:FBI director calls lack of data on police shootings "ridi... by hga on Thursday October 08, 2015 @01:00PM (#10354042)
Less deadly, yes, but qualitatively so? Not from everything I've seen. We've got a lot of inherently violent populations, like the Scotts-Irish that settled the Appalachians. And the cost, a 2nd Civil War, would dwarf any putative improvements.