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Kasz216 on 02 October 2009
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highwaystar101 said:
TheRealMafoo said:
So let me get this right... if guns don't make you safer, you're saying that we can take all the guns away from cops, and they can do there job equally effective with no additional risk to there safety?

Is that so? Policemen don't need guns to do their job effectively. Now let's do a case study, USA arms their police with guns and allow open ownership of guns and Britain does not. 

USA has the 24th highest murder rate in the world with 0.042802 murders per 1000, where as Britain has the 46th highest murder rate with 0.0140633 per 1000. That is a large disparity, the country who do not arm their police with guns and do not allow guns to be owned as easily have a four times lower murder rate. What does that tell you about gun crime?

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Absolutely nothing since it's like comparing Apples and BBQ sauce.  Considering how many differences there are betwen the UK and US... one would have to be stupid to think you could even compare stats between countries involving such things.

Besides... it doesn't even show which variable is the dependent variable.

The US could have more guns... because we have more murders.  Though it's likely either has much effect.