Mick said, If you look at the relationship between violent crime and gun laws, you will find that in states where the gun laws are very strict, they have a much higher violent crime rate. Where the laws are less strict and law abiding citizens have the right to carry, the violent crime rate is much lower.

I am not saying this is fact, because I don't know, but it could be because the states with stricter gun laws have many times more people in them, so the percentages get skewed. For instance, we have less than 500,000 people in the whole state of Wyoming, that's about 90,000 square miles. Seems to me we'd be bound to have a lower violent crime rate just because there aren;t as many of us.

kat