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Re:Terminating Service for 8Chan by agensaequivocum on Monday August 05, 2019 @04:03PM (#20618270)
True, but it is still false to say that more guns necessarily means more gun crime. I don't think this chart proves anything, it just shows another perspective of the data.

Another point of interest is the number of CCW issued (estimated to be around 17 million now) and the liberalization of carry in general since the 1980s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_carry#/media/Fi...

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Re:Terminating Service for 8Chan by throw0101a on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @08:24AM (#20634009)
> True, but it is still false to say that more guns necessarily means more gun crime.

The research seems to indicate otherwise:

* https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jels.12219

* https://www.bmj.com/content/364/bmj.l542

* https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/guns-an...

* https://www.nber.org/papers/w7967

* https://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2018/handgun-purcha...

I think there is a point in diminishing returns--some gun control measure are more effective than others--but many places in the US have not even plucked the low-hanging fruit.

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