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Old 12-15-2012, 04:14 PM
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Immediately?? It took 10 years for the rate to jump to record levels. Seems to me more like around the time the war on drugs started taking place is when the death rate jumped. Also no where on that graph does it say homicides and manslaughters from guns.
It's total homicides, for the relatively obvious reason that guns prevent homicides when potential victims have them. You can nitpick the graph all you want, but the absolute most pro-gun-control argument you can get out of it is that gun control is worthless.
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