I live in Denmark. As do around 5.7 million others, all told. We have no death penalty.
In 2015 we had 41 cases of homicide.
It can be done.
In 2015 we had 41 cases of homicide.
It can be done.
There isn't a gun culture* (just picking one aspect) at all in Denmark, there is a rich culture in the US to the point that people think you are changing the identity of the country if you reform gun law. Stating that a progressive state that never had such problems can solve them has no meaning.
* guns would be the leading cause of homicide in the US.
Like a trigger is a leading mechanism, but it's the combustion that fires the bullet?
The gun/trigger/bullet/gunpowder/whatever is a mechanism of the murder, not the cause. (I'm not a rabid "gun nut" [nor even a gun owner], but blaming guns as the cause is just as fundamentally misplaced as blaming a baseball bat, knife, or rope, IMO.)
Removal of guns from a society lowers total murders, it doesn't just move those murders to some other weapon/cause.
Look at Australia's crime statistics, or Canada, or Britain before and after serious gun control. They all show this to be true.