A study with in 1997 in America was conducted to find out weather or not gun prevalence had any thing to do with crime rate or not. Once again there was arguments for and against the ownership of guns. There was people that believed that the more guns there were the safer the environment. There where also people who thought that the less amount of guns there where the better. It was also clear that most gun violence happened in more populated places, compared to rural and smaller populated places. The current study used suicide by firearm as a proxy for firearm ownership. Examining violent crime, homicide, rape, robbery, and assault as the bases for the crime rate. In the end it turned out that for the this study the more guns there were the high the risk for crime rate. But mainly in heavily populated areas.
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