5 Gun Control Arguments We Are Tired Of Hearing

3. We need more gun regulations 

Gun control proponents often like to say, “if only there were more gun laws on the books, we could prevent more crimes.”

But the opposite seems true in the real world.

Chicago, for example, has some of the nation’s toughest gun laws, but it also has a high rate of homicide. The Daily Beast found in 2015 that certain sections of Chicago actually have higher homicide rates than some of the world’s deadliest countries.

West Garfield Park had a homicide rate of 116 per 100,000 people in 2014, according to The Daily Beast. For comparison, Honduras, the world leader in homicides, had a rate of 90 per 100,000. Chicago’s West Englewood neighborhood saw a homicide rate of 73.3 per 100,000 in 2014, which puts it ahead of the country with the second highest rate of homicides, Venezuela.

The U.S. average is about five per 100,000 people.