SEAN DAVIS
'Do research on any issue or topic related to gun rights or laws, so long as your research is research and data/fact driven. Post about what you learn on your blog, summarizing it, and discussing any other questions that your research raised for you.'
Do countries with strict gun laws really have less crime or fewer homicides?
The fight for gun control laws usually sparks the idea that more guns mean more violence, but in the US and other developed countries, total murder and suicide rate, do not increase with rates of gun ownership.
First, it is still possible to violence without guns, the former Soviet Union had stringent gun laws but with much higher murder rates than other countries. On the other hand, countries such as Norway, Finland, Germany, France, and Denmark all have heavy gun ownership with a history of low murder rates.
The US is different, it has more guns than any other nation and has more gun related deaths than any other developed nation. The US has six times the homicide rate of Canada, seven times as many as Sweden, and 16 times as many as Germany. This is different, as in addition to federal regulation, states across the US have different varying laws on firearms. People against gun control point to Chicago, which had 781 homicides and 3,000 shooting incidents in 2016, despite Illinois' tough gun laws "proving that gun control doesn't work.
https://people.howstuffworks.com/strict-gun-laws-less-crime1.htm
'Do research on any issue or topic related to gun rights or laws, so long as your research is research and data/fact driven. Post about what you learn on your blog, summarizing it, and discussing any other questions that your research raised for you.'
Do countries with strict gun laws really have less crime or fewer homicides?
The fight for gun control laws usually sparks the idea that more guns mean more violence, but in the US and other developed countries, total murder and suicide rate, do not increase with rates of gun ownership.
First, it is still possible to violence without guns, the former Soviet Union had stringent gun laws but with much higher murder rates than other countries. On the other hand, countries such as Norway, Finland, Germany, France, and Denmark all have heavy gun ownership with a history of low murder rates.
The US is different, it has more guns than any other nation and has more gun related deaths than any other developed nation. The US has six times the homicide rate of Canada, seven times as many as Sweden, and 16 times as many as Germany. This is different, as in addition to federal regulation, states across the US have different varying laws on firearms. People against gun control point to Chicago, which had 781 homicides and 3,000 shooting incidents in 2016, despite Illinois' tough gun laws "proving that gun control doesn't work.
https://people.howstuffworks.com/strict-gun-laws-less-crime1.htm
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