>>24
but think about it, if people can't kill other people with guns, they'll have to use something else. killing people with guns is by far the easiest, so everything else will be more trouble. If you look at it psychologically there is a major difference between stabbing someone repeatedly untill they die, and *blam* shoot them dead.
As has been mentioned before, criminals who want guns can get guns, this counts more or less all over the world. But if you look at crimes of passion amongst civilians, it would practically, and psychologically, be more difficult to directly kill a person without a firearm.
Even for 'gangs' or whatever, the increased difficulty of getting a firearm, will raise the price of acquiring one illegally too, logically an increased price will mean that less people can afford them, sure, hardened criminals will be able and willing to acquire guns, but with proper punishment and regulation, petty criminals wouldn't want/dare to.
You have to remember, that if everyone have guns, then a criminal needs to have a gun too, in order to protect himself while committing the crime (not talking about killers/murderers here). By this, logically, if nobody had guns, criminals wouldn't need them either. Of course, a utopian thought, but there could still be something about it.