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That article admits that the tie is at best tangential, inferred, or plain made up.

Also, it fails to compare data over a period of time, something done in one of the other articles. Also of significance are the department of Justice's compiled statistics on the subject, including the relevance of firearm violence in general when considering that far more people are murdered, most brutally, by other means. Human beings have been chopping/bashing/poisoning eachother on a literally biblical scale for millenia. All the introduction of firearms has done is further amplify the fact that we're not getting any more civil. It could even be contended the first weapons were manufactured by bandits for the express purpose of raiding other camps and stealing their food. Some bandits would even consume their victims, out of necessity. Violence is not new, nor is violence with firearms, nor is it a particularly serious phenomena, when compared to said stabbings/bludgeonings/poisonings...