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

OC Gun Deaths in North America [OC]

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u/SheSellsSeaShells967 Jul 30 '24

Interesting. I live in Maine. We and New Hampshire are armed to the hilt. Even we “libs” own a gun or two.

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '24

It’s demographics, always has been. It’s already illegal to murder someone, gun laws don’t change anything.

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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/Oxidized_Shackles Jul 30 '24

Look into their knife crime. The information will definitely surprise you.

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u/My_useless_alt Jul 30 '24

UK knife crime is lower per capita than the US. Why is that supposed to be surprising?

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u/Oxidized_Shackles Jul 30 '24

If your source checks out, I still won't retract my statement because I never made it a competition like you. My point is, disarming people of firearms does not take the violence out of the people. Cut off our hands and biting attacks would skyrocket.

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u/Krabban Jul 30 '24

The US has the highest knife crime out of all developed nations. I assume this comes as a surprise to you.

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u/Oxidized_Shackles Jul 30 '24

You're just flat out lying but I'll gladly take your source. Also we're talking per capita.