High gun ownership makes countries less safe, US study finds

[LAGC]

37. That would be good to know, if only all deaths were committed by firearm.

But that's only part of the story, isn't it?

Of course less firearms = less firearms deaths. No kidding. Less access to any particular tool will make the likelihood of it being used for any given purpose less. Duh!

But what good does it do to focus on just firearms when people die of so many other causes? Causes much more prevalent and likely than dying from a firearm?

Japan has no guns, but their suicide rate is through the roof. They have no problem figuring out ways to kill themselves in the absence of guns.

"Where there's a will, there's a way..."

Even if rounding up every single gun in America were possible somehow, even if you assume the black market could somehow be controlled (like our failed war on drugs, perhaps? ) -- people would still die by other means in roughly the same number.

You can either go after the symptom (gun violence) or go after the cause (the factors that lead some to resort to violence in the first place) -- it doesn't take much imagination to figure out which approach is more effective.