From GunCite, a great place for accurate information relating to the Second Amendment:
Taking the long view it appears that the gun supply does not have a significant impact on total homicides or suicides.
About half of the time gun stock increases have been accompanied by violence decreases, and about half the time accompanied by violence increases, just what one would expect if gun levels had no net impact on violence rates. The rate of gun suicide is correlated with trends in the size of the gun or handgun stock, but the rate of total suicide is not, supporting a substitution argument–when guns are scarce, suicide attempters substitute other methods, with no effect on the total number who die. Trends in the size of the cumulated gun or handgun stock have no consistent correlation with crime rates.
No, this is NOT what the Brady Bill proponents and other gun control nuts would have us believe.
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