I have a great point, you have a tiny contributing factor.
A lot of rich poeple do coke, not just poor crack heads.
We have more rich than England by far, point negated
You have no point at all.
Countries that have banned guns didn't see a significant drop in violent crime rates. That alone negates your point.
There are 63 million gun owners in the USA. There were 10,086 murders with guns in the US in 2007. Even if you claim that all were committed with legally owned guns, it still means only 0.016% of the gun owners committed a murder. And yet you want to punish the other 99.98% in the
hope that things will change. The legal gun owners are not the issue, nor are the guns themselves. It is the violent criminal who is released over and over that is the problem.
Before you take away the personal freedoms of 300+ million people, how about locking up the people who commit violent crimes and leaving them there?
Also, find the stats for the number of murders committed with guns, by people who could
legally buy a gun, and see what a tiny percentage that is. The gun ban won't work.
You keep quoting the total murders number, but that is not the number of gun related murders.
In 2007 (the most recent year I found data for) there were 1,796 murders with knives. In the same year 134 people were strangled, 647 were beaten with a blunt object, and 854 were killed with hands & feet.