The Relationship between Firearm Prevalence and Violent Crime
"In the past 12 years, several new studies found that increases in the
prevalence of gun ownership are associated with increases in violent
crime. Whether this association is attributable to gun prevalence
causing more violent crime is unclear. If people are more likely to
acquire guns when crime rates are rising or high, then the same pattern
of evidence would be expected. An important limitation of all studies in
this area is the lack of direct measures of the prevalence of gun
ownership.
...In this essay, we examine the empirical evidence on the relationship
between firearm prevalence and violent crime, including homicide,
domestic violence, aggravated assault, rape, and robbery. Most of the
studies we examined used the proportion of suicides that were firearm
suicides (FS/S) as a proxy for gun prevalence."
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