Slightly related but I come from a country where guns are pretty much illegal and you need to go through a ton of background check etc to even get a 6 bullet pi

Slightly related but I come from a country where guns are pretty much illegal and you need to go through a ton of background check etc to even get a 6 bullet pistol. Yet my country has a severe gun violence shooting problem because of illegal guns being manufactured at home as well as imported from neighbouring countries. Another similar example is Mexico with less than 2% legal gun ownership and only a single gun shop and yet they have mass gun related crimes. If one were to look at US or Switzerland, huge majority of the gun deaths (60% if I remember right) are from suicide and another 15% if law enforcement). Gang related crimes happen using handguns and not ar15 etc.