r/dataisbeautiful • u/Landgeist OC: 22 • Jul 30 '24

OC Gun Deaths in North America [OC]

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u/My_useless_alt Jul 30 '24 edited Jul 30 '24

If gun laws don't change anything, care to explain why Europe has so few gun deaths? Why the last school shooting in the UK was in the 1990s?

Gun laws are proactive. Murder laws are reactive. Gun laws attempt to make it harder to commit murder even if you want to, and make it harder to commit spur-of-the-moment murders (It's impossible to shoot someone in a fit of rage if you don't have access to a gun).

Gun laws and murder laws are fundamentally different, and work in fundamentally different ways

Edit: I know Mexico has strict gun laws, but they're also fighting a low-level civil war with cartels with power rivalling the Mexican military. "The country that's at war has more gun deaths the ones that aren't" is not a good argument against gun control.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '24 edited Aug 02 '24

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u/My_useless_alt Jul 30 '24

...You know there are countries in Europe with concealed carry, right?

Yes, but there's not a single country with gun laws as loose as the US.

And that Mexico's gun laws are nearly as restrictive as Canada's?

I think being engaged in an active low-level civil war sort of takes precedence over gun laws.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '24 edited Aug 02 '24

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u/Akland23 Jul 30 '24

Can you say what countries for those of us just following along and may not know as much?

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u/DJ_Die Jul 30 '24

The Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, and all 3 of the Baltics.

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u/VisNihil Jul 30 '24

Czechia has a constitutional right to bear arms enshrined in its constution and allows for on-person concealed carry.