Reply #92: while that might be true, it still follows that removing the guns...

[mike_c]

...removes an easy way for people to kill one another, just like clicking a remote control. I am not so naive as to suggest that without guns, people won't find other ways to do violence and mayhem to one another. If everyone walked around wearing swords, the murder rate by edged weapons would be off the charts, just like it once was in much of the world. So yes, maybe it's us-- but "we" still respond to opportunity or the lack of it, and even if the real problem is the folks WITH the guns rather than the guns themselves, one part of the solution remains preventing folks from having easy access to those guns.