Nice try at diversion, but the topic isn't "gun deaths", it's "mass murder". And amazingly enough, the UK's gun laws have NOT stopped people from murdering each other, mass-murdering each other, spree-killing each other, serial-killing each other, and even shooting each other.
But thanks for answering the OP's question by proving that we can't, in fact, have a non-partisan discussion of the true causes behind heinous crimes.
In fact, after England banned guns in 1997, their rate of crime increased. According to the British Home Office and reported by BBC, street robberies were up 28% by 2001, violent crime up 11%, murders up 4%, and rape up 14%. The trend continued in 2004 with a 10% increase in street crime, 8% increase in muggings, and a 22% increase in robberies.
I'm beginning to think criminals don't obey the rules. Sup' with that?
Well, at least they got rid of all those evil handguns, right? Nope. According to a King's College study, handguns were used in 3,685 British offenses in 2000 compared with 2,648 in 1997, an increase of 40%.
Bummer.
So what's happening lately in the UK, now void of private gun ownership? According to a 2009 joint report of the European Commission and United Nations, the UK has the highest rate of violent crime in Europe...higher than the United States! And, they have the second highest overall crime rate in the EU. Then there's this gem: by 2007, firearms used in crimes doubled...fricken doubled!
But America's gun grabbing nanny staters know what's best...THEIR plan for more gun laws will surely do the trick.
And apparently, people are much "safer" if they're killed with a knife or a blunt object than if they're killed with a gun.
Gotta love liberal logic, if only because trying to follow it lets you feel like you're on LSD while still sober.
Yup. Knives and clubs work quite well when killing someone.
Shit happens, i.e. guns, and will continue to happen. The world is full of eviil, looney and just plain bad people.