Reply #73: Some of those other means on the mass scale are

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much more spectacular and effective. McVeigh killed 168, at once the 9/11 hijackers just shy of 3,000 inside of three hours. Remove guns from society and my bet is that left untreated, maniacs will substitute their methods, That cult in Japan did just that to kill twelve and wound thousand with nerve gas.

On the intimate scale, guns or the lack of them will not change much here. Removing guns from the statistics, we still lead the industrialized world in stabbings and blunt force trauma deaths and trail much of it in suicides by any means per capita.