It matters because guns are more effective at killing people. You easier kill someone with a gun than with anything else which makes criminals more likely to do it. My guess is that there is indeed a correlation between availability of weapons to criminals and murders.
There are also other ways of obtaining weapons for criminals: From the military, which you see for instance in eastern europe. Or from other countries with lax weapon laws, like most of the Americas get their weapons from the US.
The USA does not even need to outlaw weapons, but it certainly needs better regulations.
Re:A Primer on DarkNet Marketplaces
by roel_v on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @06:30PM
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Ah yes, the venerable 'we can't stoop so low as to be comparing ourselves to those barbarians in countries where they don't even speak English, can we' argument.
It matters because guns are more effective at killing people. You easier kill someone with a gun than with anything else which makes criminals more likely to do it. My guess is that there is indeed a correlation between availability of weapons to criminals and murders. There are also other ways of obtaining weapons for criminals: From the military, which you see for instance in eastern europe. Or from other countries with lax weapon laws, like most of the Americas get their weapons from the US.
The USA does not even need to outlaw weapons, but it certainly needs better regulations.