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Originally Posted by Scucca  Afraid not! The abundance of evidence suggests otherwise. As an example, we have Mocan and Tekin (2006, Guns and Juvenile Crime, Journal of Law & Economics, Vol 49, pp 507-531) which "[c]ontrolling for a very large number of personal and family characteristics and exploiting the time variation in criminal activity and gun availability, [shows] that gun availability at home is positively related to the propensity to commit crime for juveniles" |
I would love to see the stats on a county or state that saw less crime with more gun control, because I have dozens of stats that support the contrary, primarily Florida.
But more importantly, even if you were right the point is moot; The whole point to a constitution is that no matter what happens, free people cannot vote away their rights and liberties.