Really, the only way to tell whether or not stricter gun restrictions would actually decrease the number of murders would be to conduct an expreriment. Which we have done. It's called England. After imposing stricter gun codes completely illegalizing guns over a certain calibur for civilians and heavily restricting guns under it, the homicide rate dropped to about 1/10th of that in the states. Now, you can parade out crap about cultural differences all you like, but a 90% difference is pretty hard to argue with. Hypothetical situations about waves of inventive homicides just don't hold up in the light of reason.
Pure and simple- the people in the US love guns, no matter how bad an idea they are. One of my favorite Kids In the Hall lines- Dave Foley's character gets asked if he's an American, his response is "No, Canadian. It's like an American, but without the gun."
The sad part is, that's pretty accurate.
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