Your data are/is useless to try and show anything about guns. Criminilogocal studies consistently show that the areas of the US with the highest rate of firearms ownership also have lower violent crime rates. The areas with the highest rates of violent crime have the most stringent "gun control."
What neither of these data say anything about, is what causes what;
a) the places with high gun ownership rates and less restrictions have less restrictions because they have had little problems with violent crime,
or
b) the places with high gun ownership rates and less restrictions have less problems with violent crime because they have high gun ownership rates
As I have understood it, as one example - New York have quite strict gun control laws? and this came as a consequence of high rates of violent crime? And then - the rates of violent crime went down, correct? (not that this was neccessarily the reason, but it did happen)
Do we have any examples of the opposite? where the gun control laws have been loosened up in an area with high rates of violent crime, and the rates have gone down? or that the rates have gone up after gun control have been made stricter?
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Your data are/is useless to try and show anything about guns. Criminilogocal studies consistently show that the areas of the US with the highest rate of firearms ownership also have lower violent crime rates. The areas with the highest rates of violent crime have the most stringent "gun control."
What neither of these data say anything about, is what causes what;
a) the places with high gun ownership rates and less restrictions have less restrictions because they have had little problems with violent crime,
or
b) the places with high gun ownership rates and less restrictions have less problems with violent crime because they have high gun ownership rates
As I have understood it, as one example - New York have quite strict gun control laws? and this came as a consequence of high rates of violent crime? And then - the rates of violent crime went down, correct? (not that this was neccessarily the reason, but it did happen)
Do we have any examples of the opposite? where the gun control laws have been loosened up in an area with high rates of violent crime, and the rates have gone down? or that the rates have gone up after gun control have been made stricter?