Venezuela experiment: Will a gun ban stop the murders?

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/venezuela/130709/venezuelan-gun-ban-murder-rate



LIMA, Peru — Besieged by one of the world’s highest murder rates, Venezuelans are hoping against hope that new gun controls may finally halt the violent crime wave engulfing their country.

The new Disarmament Law will restrict purchases of guns and ammunition to the army, police and the country’s booming private security industry. Previously, anyone with a permit could legally buy a gun in Venezuela.

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The move is the latest in a series of desperate government measures to quell the slaughter that makes Venezuela statistically more dangerous than Iraq or Afghanistan.

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He says, for example, that the figures exclude thousands of slayings by the police, officially categorized as “resisting authority,” and others where the precise circumstances of death have never been officially determined.