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Rath said:
America has a ridiculous amount of gun crime, homicides using guns and accidental gun deaths. Freely available guns have not made America a safer place.


But, are the guns the cause of the violence, or something else? It seems the drug war and socioeconomic backgrounds that have more influence.

For example, New Hampshire has a murder rate of roughly 1.0 out of 100,000... which outperforms many European countries. New Hampshire also has some of the least restrictive gun laws in the country (http://freestateproject.org/intro/gun_rights)...