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To: Dale Baker who wrote (21579)	6/20/2006 2:12:11 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543766

I think it likely that countries with less gun control laws on the average have more gun murders than countries with more laws, but there are a ton of other factors in play with different legal and political systems, different histories in general and specifically in terms of guns and violence, and cultural differences. You also have to be careful about bias in selection of the countries you compare, either intentional bias from someone trying to make a point, or unintentional bias from a limited sample of countries that you been in or have information about. South Africa has a very high non-gun murder rate, it seems that the political, economic, and/or cultural situation there results in a lot of murders. The US has a high gun murder rate compared to many European countries with tighter gun control or compared to Japan but it also has a higher non-gun murder rate. Again some political, economic, social and/or cultural factor makes Americans (or at least a sufficient sub-set of Americans) more likely to murder. In the US violent crime in general and specifically murders with guns have been trending down, as the number of guns has increased greatly. In the UK murders went up after private guns where essentially banned. reason.com lewrockwell.com guncite.com guncite.com