More regulation, of course. It's worked so well for guns, after all. Because making more laws prevents people who disregard laws from breaking other laws.
Really, we should just cut to the chase and outlaw murder.
Really, we should just cut to the chase and outlaw murder.
For example, I'd observe that organized crime pretty much everywhere in the world possesses weapons. The extent to which they resort to them varies of course, but it seems unreasonable to blindly dismiss that as being due entirely to regulation.
Here is a very coarse overview of what I would term "problem". It's the list of countries by firearm related homicide rates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-r...
Sorting the second table (Homicide rates by firearm per 100,000 inhabitants. Latest available year.) by rate is rather eye-opening.
The USA is four times as high as Canada - and almost forty times as high as Australia
Jamaica * 44.706 2022
Saint Lucia * 30.580 2022
Honduras * 28.721 2021
Bahamas 28.538 2022
Saint Kitts and Nevis * 25.207 2021
Ecuador * 22.565 2022
Belize * 22.454 2022
Trinidad and Tobago * 20.551 2020
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 20.128 2021
Puerto Rico * 18.382 2016
Colombia * 18.127 2022
Mexico * 17.497 2022
Brazil * 15.945 2020
Barbados 11.717 2022
Panama * 10.227 2021
Antigua and Barbuda * 8.532 2022
Costa Rica * 8.304 2021
Uruguay 6.807 2022
Dominican Republic * 6.724 2022
Paraguay * 4.803 2021
El Salvador * 4.782 2022
Bermuda 4.674 2021
United States * 4.054 2020
Chile * 3.637 2022
Guatemala * 3.436 2021
Suriname * 3.398 2022
Guyana * 2.983 2021
Peru * 2.937 2020
Argentina * 2.305 2022
Egypt * 2.062 2011
Nicaragua 2.000 2021