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Lafiel on 13 December 2012
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irstupid said:
thismeintiel said:
I suppose none of the anti-gun people aren't going to explain why Vermont, a state with very lax guns laws, has one lowest number of gun homicides per capita in the US.


I also believe that Illionois with the strictest gun regulations has one of if not the highest gun related incidents/deaths/ect.

 

I'm not saying they coorlelate, cause obvioulsy if you have a lot of gun violence you will try to enforce stricter rules, and if you have no gun violence, you will not need to make them any tougher and could even lax them.

All this shows is that its not the rules that are the problem, its the people.  If Illinois and Vermont switched rules for a year, I bet the crime would stay the same.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/jan/10/gun-crime-us-state

maybe you should argue with facts and not with what you "believe"

the only stat in which Illinois is the highest is in "firearms, % of all murders" (~80%), which I interpret as that they'd better have less guns as guns play a role in almost every murder in Illinois