SalarHaqq
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US gun policy is unfairly criticized tbh. Private gun ownership can be done responsibly and if you train your population can be another tool for national defence. Scandinavian countries also have high rates of gun ownership but don't have the same rate if gun violence. Owning a gun doesn't make someone want to commit violent crimes, but poverty, poor mental health infrastructure, and a general lack of societal responsibility and cohesion does. Iran has many of these same problems.
And yet Iran's intentional homicide rate is something like two and a half to three times lower than the USA's. So based on what you explained, it implies Iran is definitely much less affected by these problems. Iran also lacks the above described, historically rooted culture of violence which goes hand in hand with the guns in America.
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