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> I'd see the ban on firearms and control at the frontiers as the #1 reason there's so few violent crimes.

However we have countries like Switzerland were firearms are widely accessible (IIRC according to estimates more than half of the gun in the country are not even registered since they did not require that before joining Schengen) and there there is basically no frontier if you’re traveling on land.

And yet the murder rate in Switzerland is not that mich higher than in Japan.



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