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“The Small Arms Survey makes it look as though there are only twenty-five countries with higher homicide rates than the U.S. In fact, there…

— John R. Lott Jr

“Nonetheless, the homicide rate in the United States, Europe, China and Japan is less than 2 per 100,000 people, whereas in most African countries…

— Nicholas Wade

Even though the crime rate has dropped in recent years, the United States has more police per capita then any other nation in the…

— Michael Parenti

In Britain, where the social safety net is more like a social swaddling cloth, crime rates other than murder are significantly higher than in…

— Ben Shapiro

“the murder rate has fallen by 16.7 per cent in the US cities since the turn of the century, while rising by 16.9 per…

— Edward Luce

“Columbia’s Dart Center treated Bloomberg and his various anti-gun groups as objective sources of information. “Nearly 12,000 murdered with guns each year,” parroted Columbia…

— John R. Lott Jr

“In no country does the average income give the right picture of how people live but in a country with higher inequality it is…

— Ha-Joon Chang

Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

— Marion Barry

“Every place that has banned guns (either all guns or all handguns) has seen murder rates go up. You cannot point to one place…

— John R. Lott Jr

“Some people would argue that we don’t do a very good job. But taking the long view, that is clearly not true. Consider the…

— Steven D. Levitt

Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.

— Thomas Sowell

40% of homicides go unsolved. You know, it's not a very good record. And, also, 95% of convictions in America come from plea bargaining,…

— Bill Maher