"The solution to gun violence is clear"

[Robb]

10. You're ignoring the issue of lethality and conviction.

How many gun homicides are spur-of-the-moment? Availability of a lethal means has been proven to affect suicide rates; what about homicides?

The root cause, and solution, to very different kinds of murder is going to be very different as well. If you're looking at a bunch of instant-gratification kills that wouldn't have happened absent a readily available firearm, that's a whole lot different than a man who's been plotting to poison his wife for the last decade.

In the former, you have to admit not having the weapon around would be more likely to change the outcome. You have to, because we know it's true in the majority of suicide attempts (edited to add of the spur-of-the-moment variety (more than half).