There is an argument that places WITHIN the united States where strict gun laws are the norm tend to have higher rates of gun violence . To fully buy this argument you have to ignore that these locations tend to 1 . Be surrounded by locales with far less strict gun regulations and no border to prevent folks from strolling out to those locations to stock up , and , 2 . Generally have stricter gun regulations in place BECAUSE of the high crime rate that already exists within the community . By the logic of some , the surest way to prevent gun violence is to equip every citizen with sufficient firepower to deter would be threats . <| sep |> Stop sexualizing the rocks dammit ! ! 1 <| sep |> I think we stitched it together .