Gun control totally lowers the crime rate guis
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It does. Quite observably.
What it does not do, is come anywhere close to eliminating it.
Is that why places like NY and Illinois have significantly higher crime rates than places with more free gun laws?
Oh wait, it's those places fault because of the nonexistent gun show loophole right?
They have higher violent crime rates because they have more blacks, and the gun laws are ineffective because the country is already flooded with guns.
The UK is not flooded with guns, and so the gun laws are actually effective.
They are SO effective, that murders are primarily committed with knives. More murders in the UK are committed with bare hands than with guns. No, I am not joking.
Compare this to the USA. It's like living on a different planet when it comes to violent crime.
I'm saying this a UK citizen and US greencard holder.
Only lowers gun crimes, increases all other violent crime types. In the US, something like 500k crimes are stopped every year by reported discharge of a legally owned firearm. Eliminate guns, those crimes will no longer be stopped because those guns would become illegal to own and use.