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Re:Portugal’s radical drug policy is working. Why hasn’t the... by andrenth on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @06:22AM (#15860255)
Australia also had reduced number of gun-unrelated deaths. In fact the percent reduction in those cases was larger than the reduction of gun deaths.

So the stricter gun laws can't be considered the sole explanation for fewer deaths.

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Re:Portugal’s radical drug policy is working. Why hasn’t the... by ceejayoz on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @07:59AM (#15860724)
There's been a world-wide reduction in crime since the 1970s. It's very possible to isolate the impact of Australia's gun laws by comparing to other similar countries that didn't implement a major gun ban at the time.
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Re:Portugal’s radical drug policy is working. Why hasn’t the... by andrenth on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @08:49AM (#15861000)
Has that been done? I think it would be quite hard to provide any meaningful comparison between countries, because the results would be clouded by many other factors that can influence them.
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Re:Portugal’s radical drug policy is working. Why hasn’t the... by repsilat on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @12:02PM (#15862678)
I don't have a horse in this race, but this argument seems to do double-duty:

> "Violent crime without firearms went down, maybe it was just people getting less violent."

> "Violent crime without firearms went up, people are going to be violent with or without guns."

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