The end of the gun control debate.

From a study published by harvered university:

"International evidence and comparisons have long been offered  as proof of the mantra that more guns mean more deaths and that  fewer guns, therefore, mean fewer deaths.1 Unfortunately, such  discussions are all too often been afflicted by misconceptions and  factual error and focus on comparisons that are unrepresentative.  It may be useful to begin with a few examples. There is a com‐ pound assertion that (a) guns are uniquely available in the United  States compared with other modern developed nations, which is  why (b) the United States has by far the highest murder rate.  Though these assertions have been endlessly repeated, statement  (b) is, in fact, false and statement (a) is substantially so.   Since at least 1965, the false assertion that the United States has  the industrialized world’s highest murder rate has been an artifact  of politically motivated Soviet minimization designed to hide the  true homicide rates.2 Since well before that date, the Soviet Union 
possessed extremely stringent gun controls3 that were effectuated  by a police state apparatus providing stringent enforcement.4 So  successful was that regime that few Russian civilians now have  firearms and very few murders involve them.5 Yet, manifest suc‐ cess in keeping its people disarmed did not prevent the Soviet  Union from having far and away the highest murder rate in the  developed world.6 In the 1960s and early 1970s, the gun‐less So‐ viet Union’s murder rates paralleled or generally exceeded those  of gun‐ridden America. While American rates stabilized and then  steeply declined, however, Russian murder increased so drasti‐ cally that by the early 1990s the Russian rate was three times 
higher than that of the United States."

In other words less guns =/= less crime.


Link: http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_KatesMauseronline.pdf

The problem is cultural.

Cities with gun bans are the worst places and the most ridden with gun violence.

Why? because of the people there and the population size.

Mexico has a total gun ban look at it.

Less guns on paper works in reality it is naïve.

Indeed, the issue is moreso cultural; it all depends on how it was established. Ex: Most swiss males have the option to bring their military-grade weapons home. Even though this is the case swizterland is not even close to being the murder capital.