The USA already has more guns in private ownership than it has citizens. 1.126 guns for every man, woman and child in the country.Seth wrote:Maybe you ought to read it first. It says exactly what I claim. The "availability" of guns to the law-abiding general public has not been shown to be causative of higher gun crime rates. It only appears that there are more gun crimes in the US because there are more guns in the US, but as my statement shows, the correlation made by people here is specious and false. This is proven by the fact that as the number of guns in the US population increases dramatically, the incidence of gun crime goes down.rainbow wrote:I see you are confused by the difference between causation and correlation.Seth wrote: That's hardly a rational conclusion. If "availability" were the causative link then the rate of gun crime in the US would be millions of times higher than it is now, but it's not.
Gosh sometimes you make the most elementary errors.
Read this: http://www.wisegeek.org/what-is-the-dif ... lation.htm
Perhaps you might learn something.
If there is any causation suggested by this fact it's that, well...more guns, less crime.
How many more until your gun-death and gun-crime figures come down to something remotely close to the UK? 2 each? 7 each?
And just how many guns can you carry at once anyway? And how many guns will it take until the weight and encumbrance actually begins to make you less safe?