Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Questions the left won't discuss about gun control, but should - and soon. [View all]gejohnston
(17,502 posts)our gun homicide is actually closer to three. That is how Switzerland has a high "gun death" rate but an almost nonexistent murder rate. About half of our suicides are with guns, not true with Canada and Australia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_Canada
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_Australia
Which was also true when the gun laws were about the same on balance of the three countries. Canada's murders are equally divided between firearms, knives, and blunt blunt objects/bare hands. Most of our murders are criminals killing each other. Most of Australia's are victims of home invasion. Most Mexican murders are with knives. Cartel wars are simply a tip of the iceberg.
Once again, your entire argument is based on a false premise and more logical fallacies. In your entire reply another poster is based on the logical fallacy
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/post-hoc.html
You haven't established that murder rates were higher and dropped after gun laws were passed or that the laws had anything to do with it. You simply make the assertion.
http://www.seekfind.net/Logical_Fallacy_of_Proof_by_Assertion__Proof_by_Repeated_Assertion.html#.VirYF2erRwA
more reading
http://www.crim.cam.ac.uk/people/academic_research/manuel_eisner/large_scale-variation.pdf
http://ourworldindata.org/data/violence-rights/homicides/