When debating gun laws, point people to this page:
List of countries by firearm-related death rate - Wikipedia
Easy to find by googling, "gun violence by country".
Ask your liberal acquaintances to find a correlation between gun violence and gun ownership. There is only one conclusion... there is none. There are countries such as Japan that have very low homicides and strict gun laws. Many people will point to these types of countries and say, "you see that's what we need here in the US". But, Iceland and several EU countries have high gun ownership but a very low homicide rate. Then there's a lot of Latin American countries with strict gun laws but high homicide rates. Refer to this posting about Brazil:
Brazilians rethinking their gun control laws
Also note that the US has about 3 times the gun ownership as any other country, yet it does not have 3 times the homicide rate of all countries. What is the correlation between quantity of guns and gun violence? None. Zip. Even within the US we see this trend. There are places with strict gun laws and high violence (Chicago) and relaxed gun laws and low gun violence (central US, Maine, NH, many others).
Removing guns (from law abiding citizens) does NOTHING to reduce violent crime. The issue with gun violence has to do with something else. IMO, it's cultural. It's also a socio-economic issue.
If you really care about reducing gun violence (and we all should), then you have to look at the cultural aspects of each of the low violent crime countries to understand why their crime rate is low. You should also be mad at all politicians on both sides (but mainly the Democrats) for ignoring the real issues of what spurs gun violence. They will create laws that only harm law abiding citizens while doing nothing to address the real problem. We need also be mad at the media for going along with the same BS. I wish the students participating in recent marches and walkouts would turn their brains on to this. They could be a driving force for real change.
