Firearm Laws Reduce Firearm Deaths

Your points are duly noted, sir. I'll be sure to provide links to citations from now on. Let's continue. You miscited one source, it is from the New York Times and the Associated Press, not the New York Daily News. I already mentioned that Central American countries have much higher rates and do not follow the trend and Brazil, as a northern South American nation, follows suite with this group. It does, however, rank 8th in total civilian firearms. Norway's lack of civilian owned guns, yet home to the worst mass shooting in modern history does not "go to show that fewer guns equal fewer deaths." I'd like to point out that this data only considers firearm homicides and not other firearm related deaths. Mass shootings do not equal overall rate of firearm caused deaths. Norway's overall firearm caused deaths are only listed at 2 here meaning average per year, while its rate of homicides by firearm is 8%. Therefore normally, Norway has a much lower rate of homicides than nations such as the US and Brazil, and really is not a good point of comparison. I reiterate that the US holds 14 of the 32 worst mass shootings since 1966 in western democratic nations, and this is no surprise because the US is number one in all three categories of firearm ownership, as well as being fifth in the yearly average overall number of homicides by firearm. I will now address a comment left in regard to my argument. The comment was, "Classic error of supposing that correlation proves causation. Malaria deaths are highest where people make the most effort to poison mosquitoes so ..." One could use the same argument in reverse; firearm laws cause firearm deaths. The problem is that what is clear is that their is a problem with malaria (firearm deaths) which are only caused by mosquitoes and their larvae (firearms). -------------------------------------------------------------------------Not my words---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Virginia's one-gun-a-month law, enacted to address gun trafficking, significantly reduced the number of out of state crime guns traced back to Virginia dealers. "In 12 states where child access prevention laws had been in effect for at least one year, unintentional firearm deaths fell by 23% from 1990-94 among children under age 15. "Following Maryland's adoption of a ban on "junk guns," firearm homicides dropped by 8.6% in the state"an average of 40 lives saved per year"between 1990 and 1998. Two recent studies looked at the impact of gun laws more broadly. The first report, released by Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) in 2008, focused on the relationship between a state's gun laws and the likelihood the state would be a source of guns recovered in out-of-state crimes. The MAIG report found that states with the highest crime gun export rates"i.e., states that were the top sources of guns recovered in crime across state lines"had the weakest gun laws."------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Citation: "Stronger Gun Control Laws Will Save Lives." Guns and Crime. Ed. Christine Watkins. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2012. At Issue. Rpt. from "Ten Myths About Gun Violence in America." LCAV.org. 2009. Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 8 Sept. 2013. Do you have any evidence that firearm laws do not reduce firearm deaths?