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I went looking for the chart I saw yesterday responding to HereticBD, but couldn't find it.
But I did find charts that show:
-states with more guns have more gun deaths
-developed countries with more guns have more gun deaths
-states with tighter gun control have fewer gun-related deaths
-states with the most guns have the most suicides
-programs that limit access to guns have decreased suicides
-states with more guns have more cops killed on duty
(And according to these charts I was wrong: there is MORE than one mass shooting per day in America.)
So I propose this mad idea that places that have more guns have more shootings compared to places with less guns. I know, I know, it's a mad proposition to suggest that there is more than a statistical connection between guns and shootings or that easy access to guns results in more people easily shooting others.
For the record: I'm not saying gun control is even possible in America, but don't play games and suggest that access to guns or the proliferation of guns doesn't influence the number of shootings. Because that is insane.
So wait, the statement is that states that have more guns have more shootings?
Let me point out the flaw in logic here for you.
I bet states with more people, have more guns. In fact I know California and Illinois have some of the strictest gun laws in the nation, and yet still have more guns then everyone else, because they have more people.
Funny enough, places with more people, particularly densely populated areas, tend to have higher violent crime rates.
Washington DC has laws passed over and over, that are so strict, the supreme court has repeatedly struck them down as unconstitutional, and yet it still has one of the highest murder rates in the US.