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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: f.simons who wrote (103903)4/11/2000 7:33:00 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1571891
 
I have seen statistics that show that the US non-gun murder rate is higher then many of the European countries where guns are very strictly regulated. If it was the effectiveness of the guns that caused more gun murders (and thus more total murders), you would think that the non-gun murder rate would be lower.

I do think it is likely that if guns in the US became very rare, that gun murders would be lower, but increasing gun control will not get make guns very rare, it will just make guns in the hands of law abiding citizens very rare. There are more guns in the US then cars (and they kill less people ) and they are not that hard to hide or smuggle. Even ignoring the constitutional or libertarian arguments against gun control, I don't think it is a good practical idea.
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