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In reply to the discussion: Gun Ownership Neither Increases Nor Decreases the Crime Rate [View all]Uzair
(241 posts)This "study" completely ignores how the guns get into the hands of the population in the first place. Any country with a high rate of gun ownership and a low rate of gun crime has sensible and properly enforced REGULATIONS on the possession and sale of guns. They don't have a stupid "right to bear arms" written in their constitutions, thus are able to pass COMMON SENSE LAWS to ensure that the right people own guns. They also restrict the type of guns people can legally own, the magazine size, etc.
You can't just put "number of guns per capita" on one axis without looking at the stupid laws that allow people to own those guns in the first place. That's why, as this bullshit "study" and you readily admit, there is NO CORRELATION found. No correlation means that you can't draw ANY conclusion about your data: the statistical analysis is fundamentally flawed from the start.