It appears that you are only interested in statistics that support your point of view.
I was also prepared to find quite a bit of murder almost everywhere in California; it is just common sense to assume that if guns are readily available, that there will be murders. But when I started working with the data, I found that this assumption was, in fact, quite wrong.
I divided California's 278 cities over 10,000 people into three groups. The first group contained 99 cities with individual murder rates below 2.5 per 100,000 people. (This is roughly the overall murder rate of Canada, a paragon of the virtues of gun control to the gun prohibitionists).
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If you lived in these safe California cities, the chances of being murdered are about half that in England and Wales -- and yet guns were readily available.
shadeslanding.com
Here is an example of how 'gun control' (bans) have increased crime in England:
In England and Wales in 1991 there were 12,129 offenses involving the use of firearms; in 1981, 8,067 such offenses were recorded. In 1991, 916 (8%) were for murder, attempted murder and other acts endangering life. Included in the total were 55 homicides resulting from the use of firearms
truepatriot.com
In 1976, Washington D.C. enacted a ban on handguns. By 1991, their murder rate had increased by 300% while the U.S. rate rose by 12%.
New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington D.C. have the most restrictive gun laws in the U.S. These 4 cities make up 5% of the U.S. population, yet account for 13% of all murders in the country.
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