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[quote=Anonymous]OP here. Some good replies here regarding population density and economic factors. However, there are some replies that are going off on tangents regarding suicides and accidental deaths. Please take those to a different topic. I am talking only intentional killings of someone else by any method, not just guns.

It is obvious that if guns didn’t exist at all then there would be no killings by guns. But there would still be murder. There would be no mass shootings but there would be bombings, running groups of people over on sidewalks, crashing planes into buildings, etc. But, given that there are guns and there always will be, are guns more of a deterrent than an enabler of homicides?  Should we take guns from the police too? Why or why not? Do we trust police more than a law abiding homeowner to have one? Also, are guns the primary cause (vs. method) of homicides or is population density, economics, social media, diversity / lack of diversity, competency of local law enforcement, age, sex, etc?  Combination of all?  I.e. which variables would be [i]most[/i] effective in reducing crime?  Clearly it is NOT stricter state gun laws, given that someone willing to kill someone else won’t think twice about breaking his/her State’s gun law. It is also not reality to believe that all guns could be confiscated and locked away, so the cat is out of the bag there (i.e. there are enough guns available already to serve those wanting to use them for I’ll will regardless of our laws).  So what are some realistic solutions, backed by factual data, to lowering [i]homicide[/i] rates (again via [i]any[/i] method) in MD and DC (and VA for that matter)?[/quote]

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