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Re:Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds by inter_netuser on Thursday September 16, 2021 @11:35PM (#28560911)
The swiss are not an outlier.

Czech republic is shall issue, and almost everyone has concealed carry permits.

Homicide rate is 0.9.

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Re:Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds by zepto on Friday September 17, 2021 @12:50AM (#28561344)
Excellent information. Do you have a reliable source for that?
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Re:Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds by inter_netuser on Friday September 17, 2021 @03:38PM (#28570039)
Which part?

Czechs have a half-millennia old, entrenched gun tradition, with amusingly even stronger protection on gun ownership than even Americans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_law_in_the_Czech_Republic

The only times this was suspended was during German and Russian occupations.

Homicide rates is easily accessible public information, from various sources including world bank and the UN?

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/VC.IHR.PSRC.P5

Year by year chart: https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/CZE/czech-republic/cri...

Their gun culture is certainly an outlier in Europe, compared to even the Swiss. Very permissive, and yet murder rates are essentially on par with entirely gun-less Asian countries vaunted for their "safety".

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Re:Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds by zepto on Saturday September 18, 2021 @01:26PM (#28577800)
This is great - such a strong datapoint that culture is the factor and not guns. Similar to the datapoint Japan provides about suicides.
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