Post-communist Russia enacted a total ban on privately owned or possessed handguns and practically all long guns with an exception for registered long guns used by licensed hunters during hunting season. However, a recent study by 2 Harvard professors of European gun laws and murder rates found that Russia's murder rate is now almost 4 times that of the US. And the majority of those murders are committed either by using bare hands or by using everyday tools and implements such as hammers, axes, knives, metal pipes, baseball bats, poison, wooden clubs, rope, etc.
The logical conclusion that an unbiased individual would make from those data would be that easy access to guns doesn't cause people to kill other people, but in fact guns deter more murders, assaults, thefts, and crime in general than any other factor. But when did a mind numbed gun-grabber ever come to a logical conclusion based on actual facts?
Yeah, but, if no firearm is involved, it’s not really a violent crime. At least that’s what it sounds like from the momunists.