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Huh? Did you read the links?

"We found that across developed countries, where guns are more available, there are more homicides.  These results often hold even when the United States is excluded."

"After controlling for poverty and urbanization, for every age group, people in states with many guns have elevated rates of homicide, particularly firearm homicide."

"We found that states with higher levels of household gun ownership had higher rates of firearm homicide and overall homicide. "

"the relationship between gun prevalence (levels of household gun ownership) and suicide, homicide and unintentional firearm death and concludes that where there are higher levels of gun ownership, there are more gun suicides and more total suicides, more gun homicides and more total homicides, and more accidental gun deaths."

"In high gun states, LEOs are 3 times more likely to be murdered than LEOs working in low-gun states."

More guns = more deaths

What else would you expect, they are designed to kill.

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Yes I read the links. My "aha!" comment wasn't directed at the last one you provided, but rather the fact that you have to parse to data to eliminate certain countries for consideration due to income and other considerations. My point is that guns alone don't contribute to more murders, as you are suggesting, that there are other factors at play. So eliminating guns will not necessarily result in fewer murders.

With regards to the link you provided which you've quoted from, the study does not provide any analysis or even quantified results other than written findings, and the data they do claim to draw on are decades old, and span only very narrow time periods. [/quote]

But they do control for income and other considerations. Aha!

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