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DieselAddict · #3 02-22-2008, 02:11 PM

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Originally Posted by pt145ss

I assume you are referring specifically to shootings on college campuses. I can not comment on whether or not school shootings occur more per capita in the US than other countries, However, I can comment on the fact that countries with stricter gun laws usually have a higher crime rate per capita than countries with less gun restrictions. In fact we see this trend in our own country. A case in point is Warsaw, GA (I could be wrong about the town…I will have to find the link), which at some point had fairly high crime per capita for that size town. The city made it mandatory that every head of household own a gun. Since then the city has enjoyed a virtually crime free city.

Case in point, Washington, DC has some of the most restrictive guns laws in the country and also has some of the highest crime rates per capita in the country.

I will leave you with this:

“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” (Thomas Jefferson Quoting Cesare Beccaria)

EDIT...It was Kennesaw, GA....

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55288

WVOtoGO said it right. I've looked into that stats before and it's easy to cherry-pick them to support any belief you might have. My impression is that overall legal gun ownership doesn't seem to affect the murder rate. There are peaceful, relatively heavily-armed countries like Finland and Switzerland, and there are peaceful, virtually unarmed societies like Japan. There are also violent societies like US and Mexico where US is heavily armed and Mexico is not. It's got everything to do with how civilized and peaceful the population is. The US has a long way to go.