> Yet during that same period, per-capita gun murders have been cut almost in half. So has all violent crime [1]. I don't want to see a chart of per-capita gun

> Yet during that same period, per-capita gun murders have been cut almost in half. So has all violent crime [1]. I don't want to see a chart of per-capita gun murders, but per-capita gun violence as a fraction of all violent crime. Even if crime is decreasing, if those who do commit violent crimes increasingly turn to guns in places where there is more access to guns, then this is evidence in favor of gun control. The hypothesis here (which would need further study) is that the decrease in violent crime would be sharper with gun control laws than without them. [1]: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-weisser/violent-crime-cities_b_4760996.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-weisser/violent-crime-cit...