No, it would not. This subject is a lot more complicated than that. The amount of legally owned guns does not directly correlate to the amount of gun crime (in either direction.)
Also, many "firearm related deaths" are suicides and even if the availability of guns is reduced you will still have people trying to commit suicide.
I don't think that is the case. Countries with greater gun control have far less gun violence. It is an indisputable fact.
True. Now, what's their violent crime rate pre and post ban/restriction? Unchanged you say?
Where's that coming from?
Just for you Fred;
http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=17847This issue has already been discussed in some great lengths here
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3500693Yes, as much as others might not believe it, this was a very long discussion back and forth between both sides of the issue and the third in between.
Yes, yes I do.
So do you think the above is as deadly as these?
These were the guns used by Mr Holmes when he was mowing down movie goers at the recent Batman premier all of which are on sale at any gun shop. Do you think he could have killed so many people with the makeshift contraption you have pictured? Personally I doubt it. More than likely you would just blow your fingers off.
If some desperado wants to cobble together some makeshift gun then there is not much that can be done about it. But 99% of the population wouldn't have clue one about how to make such a primitive weapon nor the inclination.
Why would the average person need an AR15 and a clip that holds 100 rounds?
And those guns are used in less than 3% of gun related crime. Do you really think banning them is going to make that 3% disappear? Or will that 3% fold over and merge with other crime?
Of course the Brady group proved you could turn a bolt action rifle into a full automatic (even if it was more likely to kill the user than the targets), so hey, they gotta go too because anyone could do that.
We already have a ton of gun control in this country, and it works, in the sense that the law abiding aren't going to break it. But the law abiding aren't the ones out there committing crimes.
Heck, Holmes should have already been barred from getting firearms but because the authorities refused to take him as a serious threat when a mental health doctor reported him, his issue never went on his record for a NICs check to pick up. If anything you should be screaming at the authorities for not doing their job.
It's crap like these incidents and the kneejerk responses that bring things along like the AWB that was a total waste of time, money and resources to do nothing