Did anyone read the report?
http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/...useronline.pdf
Very strange. It's a very well written report that is forty pages long, but only discusses gun violence and murder rates in Europe yet does not include England which seems to have a lower murder rate than all other countries in Europe. At the same time this report fails to compare stats from South America, where gun crime is unusually high.
Then at one point the article states:
"Americans are more likely to be shot to death than people in the world’s other 35 wealthier nations."
Interesting.
On one hand it's the most detailed report I've ever seen (I haven't read it fully obviously). On the other hand, it seems to be cherry pick stats
It's obvious that crime is dropping in the US, and has been for some time. I am not sure if this is because of gun control. I think it's more because of better police work - it's just so much harder to get away with shit now because of DNA and other such technology.