This topic focuses on issues related to firearms in the U.S. and selected international countries such as Mexico, China, United Kingdom. It covers regional and national policy, laws and bills, debates, gun violence, crime, statistics, history, gun control, and proposed regulations. Data included obtained from FBI, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. and foreign governments and other major sources.
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Pro-Gun Control Leaders Have Highest Murder Rates in Their Cities
CHICAGO. Recent crime data seems to suggest that crime involving firearms is down in 2013. Yet we still have people out there who think we just need to ban firearms [Report, Point 22] and we will end crime altogether?
In places where total gun control exists has shown the opposite. Countries such as Mexico and the United Kingdom have total gun bans which did nothing but soar crime and the murder rate.
Some 70,000 people have been killed in Mexico since a total gun and knife ban [Report, Point 11]. In the UK, gun-related crime went up 65% since the country’s gun ban [Report, Point 4].
In the United States, Chicago has one of the toughest gun control laws in America, and also has the highest murder rate in America (Report). In fact, during 2012, more people were killed in Chicago than U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan. Read More…