[quote=briansd1]How about asking if we would be safer if nobody was armed?
Yes, we would be safer, IMO.[/quote]
“The same pattern appears when comparisons of violence to
gun ownership are made within nations. Indeed, “data on firearms
ownership by constabulary area in England,” like data
from the United States, show “a negative correlation,”10 that is,
“where firearms are most dense violent crime rates are lowest,
and where guns are least dense violent crime rates are highest.”’
11
“In 2004,
the U.S. National Academy of Sciences released its evaluation
from a review of 253 journal articles, 99 books, 43 government
publications, and some original empirical research. It failed to
identify any gun control that had reduced violent crime, suicide,
or gun accidents.15 The same conclusion was reached in
2003 by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control’s review of thenextant
studies.16”
