Lawmaker wants military patrols after child's murder

[DanTex]

41. Actually, the issues are far more complicated than you would like them to be.

Your crude view of gun ownership versus homicide data in in the US over the time doesn't even begin to tell the whole story. And even there you have your facts wrong. Violent crime rates in the US peaked in the early 90s, at the same time that gun ownership rates were peaking -- since then, both gun ownership rates and crime rates have dropped. However, because many factors affect crime rates, just this data alone doesn't really prove too much. The fact that gun availability and homicide are linked has been established in many scientific studies, which have looked at international comparisons, as well as looking at US data at a more granular state-by-state or county-by-county level.

I don't kid myself that you might actually be interested in a rational, scientific approach to the issue of gun violence -- even if you were willing to be open minded, I doubt that you would be capable, at a cognitive level, of understanding the real issues. But for anyone else reading this, the following two studies are a decent place to start.
http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/dranove/htm/dranove/coursepages/Mgmt%20469/guns.pdf
http://www.sanford.duke.edu/research/papers/SAN04-07.pdf