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[kandrathe]

The inescapable conclusion is ...

Actually, to be fair, the inescapable conclusion is that there is no correlation between gun population and homicide rates. If you look at segments of populations around the world you will find areas with high/high, high/low, low/high, and low/low. So, what gun advocates do is grab the area with lot's of guns and low crime and say, "See! More guns = less crime.", while gun-control nuts will grab the opposites and say "See! More guns = more crime."

As wannabe social scientists, the best we can do is to show the correlations of; crime rate to poverty, poverty to drug abuse, drug abuse to crime, and crime to homicide. Guns are tools that make homicide easier. You very rarely hear about a drive by knifing. Also consider, drunkenness is a freely available substance highly linked to violent crime.

And... If gun-control people were to advocate local gun free zones for high crime areas... that actually makes sense... we don't keep gasoline in an area prone to fire. Kind of like the taming of Dodge City, and checking your guns in with the local Sheriff. Perhaps "well regulated militia" means that guns should be acceptable when securing the peace, and should be restricted from those who would use them criminally (or those areas with high crime rates). I still wouldn't want the potential victims of a violent crimes to be denied their rights of self protection.