I hate to have to be the one to bring it up, but it’s been pointed out that the United States’ rate of crime and murder would drop to that of Canada if there simply were no African-Americans. Unfair but undeniable. I won’t speculate as to cause but it would seem to demonstrate that the “instrumentality” theory of crime and violence– that access to firearms drives the incidence of injury and death– is at most far secondary to more proximate causes of social dysfunction. Certainly legal restrictions on possession and carry of firearms would seem to be going after the low-hanging fruit, since people who aren’t habitual criminals aren’t the ones causing a problem, while those who are are little deterred by breaking a few more laws.
Hmmm…Pointed out by whom?
Well it’s a little out of date since it was written at the peak of the USA’s violence surge in the late 1990s, but there was
And from the linked .pdf
One very obvious difference between the people of the United States and those of other rich countries is our thirty million or so African descendants. African Americans have, and long have had, rates of homicide that are eight to ten times higher than those of European- or Asian-American populations, both as
perpetrators and victims. So while African Americans amount only to twelve percent of the United States population, they account for more than half of the homicides."’
Enough to make a difference in law encement crime statistics.
About 1000 or so.
You would have to show that after open carry was passed the number of such incidents increase significantly. And stats have shown, there is no such significant increase.
So…a non-answer and a stupid answer.
Would you like those answers hitched to a flying unicorn while you’re at it?
So, now the UK. The UK banned some handguns in 1920, then pretty much all in 1997.
So, during Victorian England guns were not banned. But the homicide rate was 1.7 per 100K, which is super low. Admittedly very slightly higher than today, but not significantly.
Was it English culture? What? Many think it was modern policing. But I do not know.
Open carry?
If you aren’t in the NG,you aren’t in a well regulated militia.
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