[marktwain]

As far as comparing homicide rates before and after gun control is put in place, I don’t know of any country with a high homicide rate and widely available guns that later put in place effective strict gun control. So I don’t know of any case where this experiment was done. If you know of one, I’d love to see it.

We have many instances of homicide rates from low to high, where gun control has been implemented. The homicide rates generally trend up after gun control is institutited, though cause and effect are hard to differenciate. Perhaps Finland or Sweden could be used, but both had low homicide rates to begin with.

You may be on to something, though, when you note that there are no countries with high homicide rates and high legal firearms ownership. The highest homicide rates are uniformly in countries with very strict firearms laws.

But, as I said, it is culture that determines homicide rates, not legal firearms ownership.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Prediction: we cant agree what to do about the problem, so we will end up doing nothing.