Title: Violent Crime and Guns - Do countries with stricter gun laws really have less crime or fewer homicides? | HowStuffWorks
Headings: Do countries with stricter gun laws really have less crime or fewer homicides?
Do countries with stricter gun laws really have less crime or fewer homicides?
Violent Crime and Guns
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Content: Killias, van Kesteren and Rindlisbacher; Liptak ]. The effect of gun laws on gun-related violence is fuzzier and far more controversial but, in general, more guns mean more gun-related violence [sources: Killias, van Kesteren and Rindlisbacher; Liptak; Luo ]. We'll examine this further below. Advertisement
First, let's look at the relationship between gun laws and violence in general. It is possible to have a violent society without guns. Prime evidence of that is the former Soviet Union and its successor states such as Russia, which despite stringent gun control laws, posted murder rates from 1965-1999 that far outstripped the rest of the developed world [sources: