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Originally Posted by Jim in CT
"Jim's comment about North Dakota just put him back in first place "
Can you be specific? Some folks here seem to think that tighter gun restrictipons will reduce gun violence. I said that the statistics of gun crime and gun ownership seem to contradict that, especially when you compare places like DC/Chicago to the Dakotas. My claim is that people who live in the Dakotas are proof that you can have lots of guns and very little gun crime. Why is that not a valid thing for me to say? Population density?
As always pal, it's very easy to lob an insult and run away.
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Actually, we don't really know what the statistics say because the NRA doesn't want any statistics to be gathered.
When the CDC was studying this in the 1990's they found that firearms in the household made it 300 times more likely to be shot and 5 times more likely a gun death by suicide.
Comparing gun law in Chicago to North Dakota makes no sense at all. It's not like we have borders, or equal demographics.