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Originally Posted by vaylorie
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Instead of leaning on your philosophical point, please better evaluate the data or show any proof that gun controls do reduce violent crime. I'm made a fairly clear and evidence-based case whereas through 25 pages there has been absolutely no proof that gun controls reduce violent crime.
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You won't get it.
Science cannot provide you a clear-cut, absolute answer. The issue is that studying the impact of gun laws on violent crime isn't really the simple question that it appears to be. Instead, we're talking about many different individual laws, written in different ways and enforced in different manners. One law might fail while another succeeds. Where those laws are implemented makes a difference, because a new, strict gun law in a place surrounded by similar laws is going to have a different outcome than the same law in a place where you can just cross a border and find completely different legislation.
Some studies are funded by biased institutions. Some studies aren't peer reviewed. Some studies feature poorly thought-out methodology.
All of that leads to a mess of frequently contradictory conclusions that can be used to support just about any position you'd like to put forward. So, basically, just because you can support your position, don't think that makes you absolutely correct. This goes for both sides.
However...it
HAS BEEN PROVEN WITHOUT A DOUBT that gun legislation absolutely reduces mass killings by firearm. People can knock themselves off all they want in this country. Just as long as they don't knock off a bunch of kids in school, take out an entire movie theater, or mow down a bunch of people in a cafeteria.
We've never been arguing the same issue.