What is your proposal for mitigating the 11,000+ gun homicides in the US each year?
I can't stop 11000 murders but If I can stop one (mine or my wife's) that's good enough reason to have a gun
What if you can stop 1 murder by limiting the firepower or magazine capacity of a gun in a school shooters hands. Say 16 deaths instead of 17 cause he had less bullets or had to reload... would that be worth it?
This is a good line of questioning.
If we make it more difficult to obtain guns, then we save lives. This has proven to be the case in other advanced nations.
It has not been proven.
The UK saw a rise in their murder rate after they passed ultra strict gun laws and their murder rate did not fall below what it was before the ban
In fact the murder rate in London is greater than the murder rate in NYC despite the strict UK gun laws
So how do you explain that?
You are missing the forest for the trees!
The UK has always had stricter gun control than the US.
So look at the left side of your chart. Notice anything?
The homicide rate in the UK is 0.92 per 100,000.
The homicide rate in the US is 4.88 per 100,000.
Our murder rate is more than five times that of the UK.
Whoever made that chart had to show murders per MILLION to make the homicide problem look bigger than it is.
Even at their worst period, their homicide rate was only about a third of ours.