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> True, but it is still false to say that more guns necessarily means more gun crime.

The research seems to indicate otherwise:

* https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jels.12219

* https://www.bmj.com/content/364/bmj.l542

* https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/guns-an...

* https://www.nber.org/papers/w7967

* https://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2018/handgun-purcha...

I think there is a point in diminishing returns--some gun control measure are more effective than others--but many places in the US have not even plucked the low-hanging fruit.



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