Cenk Uygur
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Science: Fewer Guns = Fewer Gun Deaths
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August 29, 2015
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8:40Now PlayingGun rights proponents often say that the reason there are so many gun-related deaths in America has nothing to do with the guns, it has to do with the crime. Unfortunately for them, the scientific method exists, and does not agree with them. Cenk Uygur, Ben Mankiewicz (Turner Classic Movies), John Iadarola (Think Tank), and Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show Podcast), hosts of the The Young Turks, break it down on tonight’s TYT Power Panel. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"A landmark 1999 study actually tried to answer this question. Its findings — which scholars say still hold up — are that America doesn't really have a significantly higher rate of crime compared to similar countries. But that crime is much likelier to be lethal: American criminals just kill more people than do their counterparts in other developed countries. And guns appear to be a big part of what makes this difference.”*
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