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Gun Laws vs. Crime Rates in 2024: A Comprehensive Analysis

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Talyn

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With over 90 years of gun control legislation and crime data, it’s clear that these laws do little to curb criminality or save lives.

While some countries with strict gun laws have low crime rates, others do not. Additionally, strict gun laws in safer countries have saved few lives over the past two decades.

This article examines the effects of gun legislation on criminality, homicide, and mass shootings.

Report Highlights:
  • National homicide rates have increased with federal firearm legislation and decreased with more relaxed gun laws.
  • Firearms are used in 73% of homicides in states with strict gun laws and 75% in states with relaxed gun laws.
  • Gun death rates vary widely despite state laws, with some strict states having high gun deaths and some relaxed states having few.
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Gun Laws vs. Crime Rates in 2024: A Comprehensive Analysis • The Havok Journal

by Cassandra McBride This article originally appeared in ammo.com and is re-published here with the author's permission. Almost daily, legislators propose Despite the evidence, politicians and the gun control lobby continue pushing for more regulations, such as Red Flag Laws, Universal...
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Something else happened in the 90's that I think may have played somewhat of a roll. Video games. The shooter video games that have gotten more and more realistic may "desensitize" youth to blood and gore. The goal to kill as many as you can as gruesome as you can may have a mental health affect on impressionable minds.
In the last couple of decades you can now gunfight with multiple people across the world and have "war zones" so to speak.
In my youth my father and uncles taught me firearm safety basically from the time I could walk in the woods or field hunting. Modern youth get it from what? TV, gang bangers, video games?
Youth can't just beat each other in a fight anymore, they must feel the need to prove how much of a "man" they are be taking the others life by shooting them 83 times. You know they disrespected me! How many times have we heard that? Too many!
 
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Pitdogg2 said:
One word!
Chicago...


Something else happened in the 90's that I think may have played somewhat of a roll. Video games. The shooter video games that have gotten more and more realistic may "desensitize" youth to blood and gore. The goal to kill as many as you can as gruesome as you can may have a mental health affect on impressionable minds.
In the last couple of decades you can now gunfight with multiple people across the world and have "war zones" so to speak.
In my youth my father and uncles taught me firearm safety basically from the time I could walk in the woods or field hunting. Modern youth get it from what? TV, gang bangers, video games?
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so while I can agree that certain videos games can contribute to this issue, I would not go too far. I played those as a young person and still do. Most of my colleagues over the years, in a variety of jobs did/do as well. I would add that games, violent movies, glorification of gore, violent music, online videos and several other venues do add to the problem of a social misfit who is impressionable looking to prove he/she is important through acting out what they have seen and heard.
 
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so while I can agree that certain videos games can contribute to this issue, I would not go too far. I played those as a young person and still do. Most of my colleagues over the years, in a variety of jobs did/do as well. I would add that games, violent movies, glorification of gore, violent music, online videos and several other venues do add to the problem of a social misfit who is impressionable looking to prove he/she is important through acting out what they have seen and heard.
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I can agree with this ^^^
 
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