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To: combjelly who wrote (326499)	2/19/2007 9:16:21 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1574216

The US also has a higher murder rate with knives than many countries "with low access to guns", if anything easy access to guns should decrease the incentive to kill with knives, obviously there are other important differences between the US and Japan or various EU countries. Among them are cultural tendencies towards violence, and ways of reporting crime statistics. As for your link - "In these analyses, states within the highest quartile of firearm prevalence had firearm homicide rates 114% higher than states within the lowest quartile of firearm prevalence." Could just as easily be that people in situations where there are high homicide rates, have a greater incentive to arm themselves. I don't have a gun, but I probably would if I lived in a area where murder was a lot more common.