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Re:De-Obfuscating the Statistics of Mass Shootings by GVIrish on Monday July 06, 2015 @11:44AM (#9839912)
Russia's murder rate is twice that of the United States yet their gun laws are far more restrictive. Mexico's murder rate is also about 4 times higher than the United States even though there's literally only 1 legal gun shop in the entire country.

I would wager that a lot of violence in the US is caused by the drug war. Mass shootings are more common than they should be but they're a drop in the bucket compared to all of the violence created by the drug black market.

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Re:De-Obfuscating the Statistics of Mass Shootings by JoeAltmaier on Monday July 06, 2015 @11:46AM (#9839922)
But drug violence has plummeted from its high point. The drop in drug prices (engineered by the CIA?) meant folks no longer want to get killed over $50.
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Re:De-Obfuscating the Statistics of Mass Shootings by GVIrish on Monday July 06, 2015 @12:09PM (#9840125)
The drop in drug violence could be a couple of different things but if it is correlated with a drop in prices that would suggest that decriminalizing or legalizing would further drop violence. Just like it did with the end of prohibition.
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