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Originally Posted by AaronM
I'm not drawing any lines. I shared a story and gave links to the reports that involve it.
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The article draws the line. The article tells us the FBI report says higher firearm ownership leads to lower crime, but the truth is the report doesn't say anything about firearm ownership at all.
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Originally Posted by AaronM
Anybody who believes gun ownership is down is a complete fucking moron. Is the "Gun Fairy" picking them and destroying them while you sleep at night?
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How about
Factcheck.org?
Check out what they said:
In 2008, we explored the issue of whether more gun ownership meant more or less gun violence. What we found, and it still holds true, was that some studies had shown a statistical relationship between those factors ? areas with a higher prevalence of guns had higher prevalence of gun homicides and homicides in general. But studies haven?t been able to show a causal relationship ? that the mere presence of guns, as opposed to other factors, caused the higher rates of gun violence.
This just states the obvious, however. Gun crimes will go up where there is more guns.
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Originally Posted by AaronM
Instead of buying into what the NY times tells you, trying looking at the stats from the FBI and NSSF.
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Show me some stats from fbi.gov about firearm ownership. Not background checks, gun ownership, for the past forty years which we can then compare to stats for violent crime.