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Proof-Variation7005 t1_j9495bm wrote

Reply to comment by heloguy1234 in Opinion: RI ignoring the needs of people with mental illness, addiction concerns by greenhousecrtv

I’m not sure I’d call it nonexistent.

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SaltyNewEnglandCop t1_j94l55o wrote

Yeah, RI is really leading this country in gun violence.

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Proof-Variation7005 t1_j94xfar wrote

We do a lot better than most of the country largely because of our gun laws and neighboring states having solid laws. Still, our level of gun violence is non-zero, and it kinda seems like we should want to improve that?

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SaltyNewEnglandCop t1_j94y0sv wrote

Illinois has solid gun laws, as does Maryland and California.

Yet California has a gun violence per capita of 8.5 of 100,000, Illinois is at 14.1, Maryland sits at 13.5

Rhode Island is only higher than Massachusetts, with the rates at 5.1 and 3.7 respectively.

Every other state is higher than us in the region.

So if CT and the other above states have stronger gun laws than us, than why is their rates so much higher?

Gun laws don’t prevent people from dying from guns, it’s the people who own them.

Every person arrested for a gun charge this year will commit those crimes regardless of any law that’s passed. You could outright ban the ownership of all firearms in this state and you’d still have people breaking the law and shooting each other.

So no, we don’t need more gun control in this state that will just fuck the law abiding gun owners.

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