In the UK we have had guns progressively removed with successive laws slowly disarming the public such that now the only easy thing to get is an air rifle or ai

In the UK we have had guns progressively removed with successive laws slowly disarming the public such that now the only easy thing to get is an air rifle or air pistol. But what is interesting is you can see in the crime and homicide stats how much impact these individual laws have had and how much the homicide rate with guns has changed over 70 years or so. The shorter answer is that disarming hasn't change the homicide rate with guns at all. That has remained steady and inline with violent crime and crime in general, the amount the populace is armed didn't have any impact. We are told it has but the statistics alas don't lie and we have stats for this going back quite a way. There should be clear and present dips after gun control laws or changes in trajectory but they just aren't there.