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Re:I used to think gun control was the answer. My research t... by cosmiccartel on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @06:44PM (#15405389)
> In day to day life there are 0.21 homicides by gunfire for 100k inhabitants per year in France and 3.6 in the US (source: wikipedia).

This is missing the point of the comment you're replying to. You're comparing homicide by gunfire, not homicide.

It is true that Europe has a lower homicide rate in general, but there are exceptions. Lithuania is a European country with restrictive gun laws and a substantially higher rate of intentional homicide than the U.S. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...)

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Re:I used to think gun control was the answer. My research t... by cadlin on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @11:25AM (#15450504)
Lithuania has also halved their homicide rate over the past ten years.

https://knoema.com/atlas/Lithuania/Homicide-rate

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Re:I used to think gun control was the answer. My research t... by jdpedrie on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @11:29AM (#15450535)
> Lithuania has also halved their homicide rate over the past ten years.

The homicide rate in the US has also fallen considerably over the last 15 years.

https://knoema.com/atlas/United-States-of-America/Homicide-r...

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