9>>We have heard "guns don't kill people, people kill people" plenty of times. Well, people with guns kill a lot more people.
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>Not true, see Switzerland. Lots of people with guns yet much less using them in homicide. It is not the presence of the weapon but the person holding it.

pretty sure you have different perecntages of handgun vs. rifle vs. half-mandatory military rifle ;-)
Also having the miltary guns in regularly controlled weapon boxes is a tad different from the US culture, I presume

>There's an argument to be made about American gun culture but not the presence of the gun itself.

While Killing sprees like Aurora and Norway are not handgun only, I guess those are used often in "usual" crime as well
as chance or impluse crime. I am also with Marcia that disarming would mostly unarm the wrong people.
My idea would be not to disallow arms, but disallow wearing hidden: if you want to go armed,
buy a holster like uniformed police, wear openly and bad luck if it does not fit the 3-piece suit or dress of the day
- and crack down hard to make that rule stick. You keep your rights, control is made more possible, less surprises.

my 0.001€ (living in an area with other rules and a big club in my house)

thomas