The validity of the statistic that gun crimes/deaths are high in america? There are lots of graphs and means that show direct correlations between the countries that have legal firearms and crimes involving them. This study actually has some pretty shocking statistics:
http://www.bu.edu/news/2013/09/13/new-research-shows-link-between-rates-of-gun-ownership-and-homicides/
You can use google to look at stuff in your own time. I guess based on these kinds of studies I believe that no guns equates to less murder/death. Guns and knives are both dangerous. It's not actually legal to walk around the UK with a big knife you know. Lock knives are illegal too.
Edit: I'm from the UK.
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So before the advent of the firearm there were no homicides? Did firearms bring hate and malice into the world?
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It's about prevention though right. Might as well do what you can to prevent things.
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Guns aren't the problem. If you want to prevent these situation it's men's hearts you need to reach. If a man hates another and wishes him dead they will find a way. You don't attribute the Mona Lisa's beauty to a brush, why is a weapon to blame for man's malice? It's true guns do make it easy for men to harm others. I am not against gun control. I'm against the inability to open/concealed carry or purchase firearms for mentally stable, responsible, clean background men and women.
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I guess in my opinion you can't eradicate an entire sect of people. You have to operate based upon the assumption those types of people exist. You know there are people that will abuse the fact they can freely access firearms to harm others. You also have studies proving there are direct correlations between firearm ownership and homicides. Based on that, you do what you can to minimise the risk to upstanding citizens, which for me would be imposing stricter gun ownership laws. Also why do people need to own guns? We don't have gun ownership here in the UK, and as far as I can tell no one cares about it either..... We just don't understand why people in the US seem to want their guns so much.