I agree with Mia, Lil and Grayda. In states and areas, such as Idaho, for instance where almost everyone owns guns, there is extremely low crime. Murder by guns hardly ever happens. Even robbery is very low. Yes, the population is low too and that might be a factor. But who wants to break into a home when the homeowner is home when the bad guy is almost certain, he'll be staring down the barrel of a gun? In other places, where guns are prevelent with the general, law abiding citizens, crime rates plummet. That has been taken notice of and documented in examples.
It is NOT guns in the hands of regular citizens that makes most crime. It is the criminals; drug dealers, organized crime, robbers who kill people, not guns. They WILL continue to get guns in the black market as they do already. They often carry guns illegally, (felons who aren't allowed guns have guns, no permits etc) Crime is high in certain areas and there are many factors. Because crime isn't as high in one country than another, it is unparsimonious to take one variable and attribute the conclusion to just that. There's the whole justice system to look at, the physical nature of a country (ie: being full of ports of entry from South America and Mexico...drug trafficing) There are many factors. In domestic violence, those who are murdered are often murdered by other means...out of the heat of the moment, lashing out with blunt objects, strangling, knifing. With pre-meditation, trying to be untraceable through gun registration/ballistics, they often avoid using guns and kill in other ways.
And as stated, this isn't about gun control, but I always jump in when my gun rights or ethics about guns are brought out. This is about the side effects of a free society and the trading a little more safety in exchange for the loss of freedom. Many in America....on account of our history would rather take liberty in spite of those side effects. As my hero, Patric Henry's address...one famous line: As for me, give me liberty or give me death is one many of us relate to.
This poor man and family who lost so much sees this. And to those patriots like me, we feel awe for him... in his agony, that he recognizes this truth. Americans must never trade their freedom for big gov. to "take care of everything" for them because permanently affixed to that, unmistakably IS tyrany, over-regulation, big government and loss of freedom to pursue happiness and the opportunity to be fruitful. We are seeing this evolving that way quite swiftly now, sadly. So, this man is a hero to many of us for in his grief, he has the strength to hold onto his inherited values as an American.