Less guns, less murders--- Care to dispute that?

[Orrex]

38. That's only one partial solution

It has lately become fashionable for gun advocates to highlight the need for public access to mental healthcare. Indeed this may be helpful in reducing gun violence, so we should pursue it.

However, gun violence would also be reduced by restricting access to guns, yet gun advocates insist that this is the one thing that we can't possibly do. Why not?


Also, I would be interested to see your statistics on UK gun violence, especially how it is now versus how it was "when their gun laws were similar to ours." What's your source? I ask because it would be useful to see how the UK's level of gun violence was affected by the enacting of stricter laws. You suggest that their rate of murder was lower than ours, which I believe it was. But how does their current level of violence compare to the days when their gun laws were more permissive?