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Gun Control & RKBA

discntnt_irny_srcsm

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4. Well I was able to find 4 on wikipedia

Reply to EdwardBernays (Reply #3)

Wed Jan 20, 2016, 05:50 PM

Jan 2016

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States_by_state

The other 2 are Louisiana and Missouri. Again this is data from 2010. The national average for murder that I found for 2010 was 4.8 per 100,000.

As I said, or at least was trying to say, gun laws don't appear to have much influence over the incidence of gun murder.

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