Originally Posted by Brother Bilo

I don't have much to back it up, but from experience, I've found that areas with less restrictive gun laws have less criminal and accidental shootings due to it being more common to own them. Meaning if its acceptable and common to own guns, more people are educated on their proper use.

Now, that's a large assumption mostly because there are always jackasses who go out and buy one because they can and choose to figure it out as they go rather than educate themselves.