Re: Guns and crime
Another argument is this one:
In the US it's far too easy to buy a gun; this allows far too many people to get one and one day, one of those honest buyers will either turn it to himself, accidentally kill a relative, have a relative accidentally kill him or be so enraged, because of an event he finds humiliating,as to become a mass murderer. All those things are encouraged by the easiness to acquire weapons.
By not encouraging the weapon possession, we don't eliminate gun ownership and killings, but it does affect statistics.
Raoul