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Looking across countries, it would then falsely appear that stricter gun control resulted in higher crime. Economists refer to this as an ?endogeniety? problem. The adoption of the policy is a reaction to other events (that is, ?endogenous?), in this case crime. To resolve this, one must examine how the high-crime areas that chose to adopt the controls changed over time ?not only relative to their own past levels but also relative to areas that did not institute such controls.