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It's nice and rather trendy to virtue signal about banning guns in a country where there's already 300 + million guns on the street
However, it does not reflect the reality. It may be quite useful to take into account that the majority of homicides and shootings are committed by those with a prior arrest record (80 + pct.) and the origin of these guns is therefore almost exclusively illegal.
Moreover, if the minority (black and hispanic) crime rates, much of those are gang related, would be removed from the crime stats, the homicide and shooting incident rates in US (among the rest of the US population) even with its huge gun culture, would be very close to those of Europe.
This can be witnessed in states with homogenous population and very little gang activity, such as for example New Hampshire.
Therefore "banning" guns from legal owners would, unfortunately, likely have very little effect on the current (major) levels of crime. You can't fight wolves by catching dogs.
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