I don't know why I'm biting, but I am. I made no such claims.
@scblack made a the statement "
Lets ask America that question. They have LOTS of guns. Therefore they have less violent crime right...…..oh,hang on....". The clear sarcastic implication being that America has a lot of violent crime.
Which they don't. Not even in a relative sense. But neither do we, and neither do most any other first world nations; which have all seen gradual, consistent, declines in violent crime rates for the better part of the last half decade. It would be a sign of flawed reasoning to attribute a complex socioeconomic problem to a single factor.