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We keep hearing that gun control is the secret to combatting crime. Gun control advocates keep arguing that somehow, gun control will stop criminals from obtaining firearms and create an overall decline in violent crime.

Gun rights advocates argue that no such thing would happen. Nations that have low crime and gun control are typically nations that would have low crime even without gun control.

However, let’s look at what happens when somewhere outside of Europe passes strict gun control measures.

In the first six months of 2019, there were 17,608 murders in Mexico. In June alone, there were 3,080 homicides in the heavily gun-controlled nation, according to The Associated Press. “Mexico has only one gun store and stringent gun controls, neither of which prevented the murders,” Breitbart News Second Amendment columnist AWR Hawkins noted on July 23. The lone gun store in Mexico is run by the government. CBS News reported that the government store is the only place a firearm can be “legally” purchased. “All firearms must be registered and the type and number of guns one can own are highly regulated,” Hawkins noted. The University of Sydney’s GunPolicy.org lists Mexico’s gun control as “restrictive,” noting that the right to possess firearms is only “conditionally guaranteed” by the country’s constitution.

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