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Piers only want to compare gun murder because that gives him the result he wants. A common trick used by hoplophobes. Compare overall murder rates, and you come up with a different result because fear of being shot lowers other violent crime rates.

According to no less an authority than the peer-reviewed Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, countries with stringent gun control laws have MUCH higher murder and suicide rates than those without.

WOULD BANNING FIREARMS REDUCE MURDER AND SUICIDE?, A Review of International and Some Domestic Evidence by Don B. Kates and Gary Mauser, Volume 30, Number 2 of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy (pp. 649-694)*

"If you are surprised by [our] finding[s], so [are we]. [We] did not begin this research with any intent to “exonerate” handguns, but there it is — a negative finding, to be sure, but a negative finding is nevertheless a positive contribution. It directs us where not to aim public health resources."

The trick hoplophobes always use is to say that America has higher gun-murder rates than other countries, but a lot of those "murders" are criminals killed in the act of committing crimes. Compare absolute murder rates, and the result is "more guns, less murder."