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If a gun crime is committed, it’s almost taken as a “freak accident” (Quealy, Margot, 1). In Germany, the gun crime rate is tremendously low. About 2 out of every million are fatally shot. In most European countries, gun homicides are just as rare as if an American were to die in a plane crash, about 1 in a million. Anti gun activists say that is because there are stricter gun laws in those countries, therefore limiting the ability to get a gun. But on the contrary, pro gun activists are arguing that many of those citizens are scared of what could happen to them if they kill someone and are caught. An eye for an eye, is the punishment in most other countries, unlike The United States. So it is just yet another factor in this strenuous fight about gun