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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Is there evidence to support the suggestion that stricter gun laws lead to less violence? Doesn't Connecticut have comparatively strict gun laws? I know Chicago does.

It seems to me that our gun laws haven't changed much over the years (if anything they are more strict) but the use of guns by mentally/emotionally unstable people has increased. Why is that? To me the common thread is not guns, but mental/emotional instability. One thing I'd propose is that the media should refuse to publish the name of these mass murders. The need to be relevant/recognized has a strange impact on an unstable mind and it seems that a disturbing number of these high school kids who go on a rampage are all too familiar with the names Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold - to an unstable mind being infamous is just as good as being famous.[/quote]

Strict gun laws in places such as Chicago mean nothing when Chicago is right next to Indiana. DC and Virginia have a similar symbiosis. And the percentage of mentally ill people is about the same here as it is anywhere else in the world. So what's our problem again? Oh yeah, guns.

And if you think gun laws are getting more strict, you haven't been paying attention. Georgia, anybody?[/quote]

You try to explain why strict gun laws haven't worked in places like Chicago, but you haven't attempted to provide examples of where strict gun laws have worked in the a United States. Regarding Chicago, you blame the laws in Indiana, but if the laws in Indiana were to blame for Chicago, wouldn't Indiana have at least as much of a problem as Chicago? [/quote]

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