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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Guardian 2000: [QB] Note Jamaica . . . extreme gun control (no guns or bullets for anyone ever), but a murder rate per capita some eight times higher than in the US. I noticed that by finding this: http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_percap-crime-murders-per-capita And becoming curious that Jamaica didn't show up here: http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_wit_fir_percap-crime-murders-firearms-per-capita Then I googled their gun laws and found references to their extreme gun control. But if guns are big bad people-killers that manufacture means, motive, and opportunity in otherwise-innocent gun owners, how are all those Jamaicans dying? I mean it's one thing when a certain area becomes gun-free and gun crimes still happen. Guns are still available next door, in effect, so it's hardly fair to criticize that. But in the 60's Hawaii banned guns, yet the murder rate tripled by the mid-70's. There's also another Hollywood aspect to this, I think. We're so used to the image of the Wild West with everyone having a gun on their hip and shooting one another over card games and having gunfights every other day that the mental association has been made of guns and rampant violent crime. But in reality, events like OK Corral or Billy the Kid stuff became so famous because they were so [i]rare[/i]. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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