> I don't think it's much of a benefit if murderers switch weapons and complete the same number of homicides. I guess you'd keep the deviously planned murders

> I don't think it's much of a benefit if murderers switch weapons and complete the same number of homicides. I guess you'd keep the deviously planned murders (even if guns are available, I'm not sure they would be the weapon of choice in most cases), but lose most of the escalated arguments, escalated property crime, fights that would otherwise have ended with a fracture or two. And mass shootings. Mass stabbings can be surprisingly deadly as well, but the same killer with a bag of guns? Surely not less deadly than with a knife.