You disqualify yourself when you write things like "If you would of read." Really? "would of"? Your spelling gives away your education level.
You can trumpet that report all you want, but you did not understand what you read. Whether "each gun control law" in the UK increased the homicide rate is not the point, the point is what that rate would have been in the absence of that law (what is commonly known as the 'counterfactual,' an outcome you can never observe but have to estimate somehow if you are going to make statements like yours). And the Czech republic may have relatively lax gun laws, but they certainly have relatively low gun ownership rates in their towns and cities. And that's the whole point: gun ownership is, and has always been, correlated with gun violence. The US has higher gun ownership rates and higher gun violence rates than any other Western country in the world. That is a disgrace and needs to change.
The long-winded comment above is trying to distract from the reality that the US has more guns and more gun violence than the rest of the Western world.
Europe, Japan, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, etc. all have more restrictions on gun ownership than the US, where gun ownership is a constitutional right. The US has higher rates of violent crimes, and a much higher rate of deaths caused by firearms. That's all you need to know.
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You can trumpet that report all you want, but you did not understand what you read. Whether "each gun control law" in the UK increased the homicide rate is not the point, the point is what that rate would have been in the absence of that law (what is commonly known as the 'counterfactual,' an outcome you can never observe but have to estimate somehow if you are going to make statements like yours). And the Czech republic may have relatively lax gun laws, but they certainly have relatively low gun ownership rates in their towns and cities. And that's the whole point: gun ownership is, and has always been, correlated with gun violence. The US has higher gun ownership rates and higher gun violence rates than any other Western country in the world. That is a disgrace and needs to change.
Europe, Japan, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, etc. all have more restrictions on gun ownership than the US, where gun ownership is a constitutional right. The US has higher rates of violent crimes, and a much higher rate of deaths caused by firearms. That's all you need to know.