@hansw@mastodon.social Of course you cant, but that also wasnt the point.

If you make something illegal, no matter if that something is good or bad, you will see less deaths as a result of it. That doesnt mean banning it is good.

Its a typical tactic of people who have an agenda and want to manipulate the facts to always use the "gun related deaths" argument, but as we just covered its obvious at first glance why that is both dishonest and manipulative to the true facts. However if we look at the effect gun laws have on death overall, homicide and violent crimes, it paints a very different picture. We see consistantly that when countries pass laws which make guns illegal there is almost always a huge surge in homicide and violent crimes in the decade after it. After some time the surge decreases but not usually to pre-ban levels.

So not only is it a weak argument but when the argument is investigated more rigorously using the tools scientists use to identify cause and effect (granger causality test in this case) we quickly see that the exact **opposite** of the stated claim is true. Making guns illegal increases the deathtoll doesnt decrease it.