Is there a link between gun ownership and violence

New Zealand and other countries have the privelege of learning from the mistakes of the larger powers like the UK, USA, and Russia.

Blackflag: Maybe it's time some of those countries started learning something from the successes of smaller countries like NZ.

nzlockie: Maybe. Problems in America and New Zealand are hardly the same, even if they are.
If you know what I mean?

Blackflag: I'd use the most effective medicine.

Which I believe in this case to be not using a gun.

Blackflag: I think what nzlockie was trying to say was that had our culture developed differently, we would have both a higher crime rate and higher gun numbers. The situation is only far because of the choices our country has made.

admin: So you would use the permanent medicine over the 12 month medicine?

Blackflag: Ceteris paribus, yes.