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Although I did already provide evidence of a gun ban having an opposite of the intended effect in the UK, all I'm required to do is deconstruct your point. I'm not making a positive claim, so I'm not required to bring evidence. You are, so you are, and that evidence is open for scrutiny - a test that it is failing.
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But that has no relation to the fact that the UK has more gun control then America and also has less gun related deaths.
hearsay is information you just heard from someone. Second hand evidence.
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Maybe you also missed that graph I posted on the first or second page.
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I did miss it. First off, considering you got your information from a strictly biased source, its validity is already in question. If this was a science experiment, all the information would have been thrown out because they were looking for answers. My data comes from police reports.
Second off, Since you are accusing me of post hoc, allow me to point out the flaws in yours. "increase" means off of last year? means off of the first year recorded? You only include robberies, how about if the criminal was caught? Other crimes other then gun robberies, IE gun homicides. Were their more or less.
The graph lacks a data bank therefore is just a bunch of pretty lines.
Also, when you look at the graph closely, you will see that before the guns were being restricted, crime was already on the rise according to the graph, bring up the question whether the lack of guns were responsible, or another mitigating factor.