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Originally Posted by The Cleaner
How do you make a connection between gun ownership and increased robbery rates. How do you make that jump with so many other factors in play?
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You made the connection by bringing up the issue of robbing a house, not me. I was actually pointing out that there was no connection at all.
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Originally Posted by The Cleaner
For starter many other countries that have restrictions on guns put Thief's to death, others cut off hands or lock them up in prisons that are so terrible most American prisons look like a resort. They have more deterrent than America.
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Punishments are more lenient in Europe, and the death penalty is banned in the entire European Union. Just as availability of weapons has no connection to crime rates, neither does punishment. Study after study has shown that harsh punishments have no effect in lowering crime rates. In fact, the states with the highest murder rates all have the death penalty, and some of the states with the lowest murder rates do not have the death penalty.
Crime is a result of social conditions. You will lower crime rates by fixing social problems, not by changing the justice system or by banning weapons. Lower poverty rates and you will decrease crime. Increase high school graduation rates and you will decrease crime...etc.