The South leads the country in crime stats and homicides with their gun nut views. In NYC, they reduced homicides by removing guns. It isn't easy to buy guns around there and the cops would frisk someone, if they suspected they possessed a gun. Then, the comparison goes to NYC and Virginia, because NYC has a slightly larger population. I'm not playing some bullshit game where someone just posts a number and says it's so high. The issue is whether it's high per capita. How many murders are there in all of Virginia compared to NYC and wouldn't it be easier to conceal a murder in that state and not a city? Having a gun in most of Virginia is perfectly normal and I've been all over the state.
When you get to that liberal northeast, you have very low homicide rates. They have stricter gun laws.
I posted a damn map proving it, go find it! I'm not going to keep reposting things for every fool on this site, there are too many. It's a picture so your lazy ass doesn't have to read.
Maryland, D.C., Colorado, North Dakota.....explain those.
Explain why California, the most unfriendly state for guns, has the same crime rate as Texas, one of the most gun friendly states in the country.
Oh yeah, you can't. Because IT'S NOT THE GUNS STUPID! Trying to boil this down to guns is like trying to boil arson down to match control. Crime is a COMPLEX phenomena. The reason you see more crime in the south is largely because the south has more poverty, whereas the northeast has less poverty.
There are other factors, of course. Policing actions and policies can have positive effects to reduce crime rates. In the case of New York City, a great deal of progress has been made thanks to the adoption of broken window policy. A city wide initiative has focused on eliminating eye sores such as broken windows, graffiti, and the like, in order to help reduce crime overall over time. Broken window theory says that such things induce more crime by sending a "no one cares" signal to others, who then are more likely to revert to what would otherwise be anti-social behavior. Since nobody cares, there is a lesser sense of the act being socially unacceptable. In applying broken windows policing policy, NYC emphasizing the need to clean up litter, remove graffiti, etc. This became a catalyst, helped to reduce respectable citizens from abandoning difficult communities, and began instilling a sense of pride within the community that reduces individuals' interest in criminal behavior. The program has been widely credited with helping NYC enjoy a downward trend on crime rates starting shortly after the program's implementation.
So you see, crime is a SOCIAL problem, just like poverty, for example. Guns are no more responsible for crime rates than drinking establishments are responsible for poverty. All the shouting about guns is nothing more than a reactionary attempt to find easy answers to difficult problems. It's like trying to cure skin cancer by putting on lotion. You have to go deeper.