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Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Gun crime in any country is highest in dense urban areas, which America has a lot of. America also has a higher population than a lot of other countries which are used to compare gun crime stats.

Gun Control works. Australia is the perfect example of that :

Last year a Reuters analysis of Australian Bureau of Statistics figures showed that in 1996, Australia had had 311 murders, of which 98 involved guns. In 2014, when the population had increased from about 18 million to 23 million, 238 people were murdered, 35 by guns.

In other words, the likelihood of being murdered by gunshot fell by 72 per cent in that period, from 0.54 to 0.15 per 100,000 people, Reuters said.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a7980671.html