Stop being reactionary. Murder is not created by guns. It's created by bad culture and mental health problems. 80% of gun homicides in the US are gang related. This doesn't mean gang vs. gang violence, but includes all violence committed by gangs. If you take away gang violence, the amount of murders by guns in the US drops significantly. If you subtract the 80% of gang related violence in the US, our per capita murder rate drops from 5.35 per 100k to somewhere between 1.05-1.1%. That's good enough to put us in the top 10 countries in the world. The countries that progressives love to champion as having low murder rates tend to have very low crime, homogenous populations with strong moral traditions, or extremely strict penalties for crime.

If you avoid the inner cities, your odds of being murdered in the US is virtually non-existent. How do you stop crime in the inner cities, dude? Oh that's right.... strict policing. But we want to ban guns for citizens, and defund the police. How many innocent people will die from your stupid policies (hint: it's a lot more).

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