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I deliberately cited overall and violent crime figures. You cherry-picked one type, and cite a 0.2% increase in violent crime, and totally ignored other relevant factors. Hence, I reminded you of them.
My bad. Still, crime is pretty high in cities like Houston, and moderately high in Dallas, Corpus Christie, Ft Worth, San Antonio.
So tell me, what are the gun laws like in Texas?
Why are California cities like Anaheim, San Jose, San Diego, Riverside and Bakersfield safer than the TX cities I listed above?
That's because your point is based on an incredibly selective and uninformed position, and ultimately does not work.
• NYC has very strict gun laws, yet crime rates have fallen steadily, and neither crime nor violent crime rates rates are high
• Same for San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, Sacramento etc
• Why do cities like Houston, Memphis, Kansas City, Atlanta, Nashville etc have high crime rates, despite relatively lax gun laws?
Of course, even what I'm saying is fairly basic. When we look at more thorough studies, there is still no evidence to support the belief that "more gun controls is correlated with, let alone causes, more crime (violent or otherwise).