What an absurd premise and stupid opinion.
Have you seen Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels? How about Snatch? Both take place in the gun-prohibiting UK and have plenty of gun violence.
You should check out Mexico and Brazil. They have EXTREMELY strict gun laws and insanely high rates of gun crime.
[Guns prevent an estimated 2.5 million crimes a year, or 6,849 every day. Most often, the gun is never fired, and no blood (including the criminalās) is shed.
Every year, 400,000 life-threatening violent crimes are prevented using firearms.
60 percent of convicted felons admitted that they avoided committing crimes when they knew the victim was armed. Forty percent of convicted felons admitted that they avoided committing crimes when they thought the victim might be armed.
Felons report that they avoid entering houses where people are at home because they fear being shot.
Fewer than 1 percent of firearms are used in the commission of a crime.]
https://fee.org/articles/guns-prevent-thousands-of-crimes-every-day-research-show/
Most "gun deaths" in the US are suicides.
[The poll asked more than 1,000 Americans what they think the leading cause of gun deaths is.
Thirty-three percent of respondents chose homicides outside of mass shootings, while 25% thought that mass shootings caused the most gun deaths. Only 23% correctly identified suicides as the leading cause. The remaining respondents chose accidental shootings or said they didnāt know.
Jennifer Stuber, a professor of social work at University of Washington and founder of Forefront Suicide Prevention, said the findings are unsurprising given the intense media coverage of events like mass shootings.
āWhat I think drives it is the way in which we cover the issues of firearms fatalities in the news and popular culture, whether thatās TV, movies, etc.,ā she said.
In reality, fully 60% of gun deaths in the U.S. every year are suicides.]
https://www.opb.org/news/article/us-gun-deaths-suicides-poll/
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