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

[krispos42]

59. Might be true

But of course, such an assumption does not explain the 50% drop in murders during the 90's, and the fact that it's stayed level since the 2000's, while gun ownership has gone up.

The problem is that there are also a whole bunch of progressive goals we can accomplish that would also lower the murder rate... while at the same time increasing the standard of living of everybody in the country.

Outlawing guns will not address things like chronic poverty, malnutrition, environmental poisoning, union-busting, free-trade, insane drug laws, private prisons, broken schools, broken elections, political corruption, the economic stranglehold of Wall Street, and the continuing growth of the oligarchy.

Or you can continue to treat it as a hardware problem. You can embark on a campaign that will polarize and energize the Right on a continuous and long-term basis while garnering only a small and temporary bump from the Left.

So, how low should our gun-ownership rate, currently at about 900 guns per 1,000 people, be? And how do you propose the government forcibly lower this rate?