Sodafin
Senior Member
I would like to see a study that makes a correlation between homocide and illegal gun ownership. Illegal gun ownership or possession of guns by those that are not legally allowed to have guns is simply not affected by laws that might be passed, that's why it's illegal gun ownership.
Exactly, and well posted.
I notice a lot of the statistics only include legally purchased and owned weapons - whereas quite obviously a lot of the guns used in crimes do not exist on any legal register.
It's very misleading to see this state has tight gun laws, low gun ownership and a high rate of crime if you ignore the numbers of illegal weapons and/or those brought into the state from elsewhere.
Mexico is such a great example - very tight gun laws, but is swamped by guns brought in from the US - meaning a high rate of gun homicide.