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(03-24-2012 02:34 PM)Pilgrim37 Wrote:  

My point was the less guns the less shootings ,not just legally held guns.Of course criminals are not going to worry about having a gun legally!
But,even without ,the Uk has very strict gun control,but increasing use of firearms used by criminals.
Compare the UK rate to the US ...the answer is clear,if you tab the populations to comparable numbers!
Less general access to guns = less deaths by firearms

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mu...h-firearms

So being stabbed to death is better than being shot? Murder is murder, and someone intent on it will find a way to accomplish it, whether by gun, knife, icepick, whatever.