Quote:No idea.  My point was that data, any data on the surface will mean different things depending on how deep you dig into the data.

I will say that in my opinion guns are not the problem, but the attitude and intent of the person holding one is.

 

A bit of a late response on this but: The data that I'm presenting is far more significant and important than the ridiculous "predictive anecdotes" that are being presented and they delve deeper into the question than those that say that Switzerland has high rate of gun ownership and a low rate of crime, thus guns deter crime. We don't really have the capability to delve that much deeper into this, because we're people with access to the Internet, not governments with access to in-depth gun ownership statistics. Let's just say that with 270 million civilian firearms in the US, there SHOULD be more than enough deterrent if guns really did influence crime rates as many would lead you to believe.

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