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by tipiirai 4006 days ago
More guns == more murder.

> “For each 1 percentage point increase in proportion of household gun ownership,” Siegel et al. found, “firearm homicide rate increased by 0.9″ percent.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/09/13/2617131/largest-...

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And what homicide rate diminished? If it just moves the weapon of choice, its largely irrelevant.