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Originally Posted by Joe Citizen
Not at all. Gun control aims to control gun violence/deaths. You need other measures in place to control other violence/murder which has nothing to do with the availability of guns.
I never stated that gun control was going to do away with muder all together, but I think we've made a good start in Australia. Down to 2 per 100,000 people. A lot of that has to do with gun control.
Do you really think that the USA's high homicide rate has nothing to do with their culture of violence and high levels of gun ownership?
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It's down to 2 per 100,000 people from what? Maybe you can find the Austalian goverment numbers, but the only source I have shows the homicide rate in Austarlia from 10 years ago to be about 1.87 per 100,000. So in fact, there's been a slight increase over 10 years, with a decrease starting in around 2002-2003. Again, I'm not entirely sure how accurate these numbers are.
Of course high percentage of gun ownership plays a part in it. I think there's other factors that are more important though including:
Population Density
Racial Violence
Differences between the haves and have nots (Social status)