>The UK had much more permissive gun policies earlier in the 1900s but still had lower rates of murder, &c, than the USA. Well, sure, but that is not particula

>The UK had much more permissive gun policies earlier in the 1900s but still had lower rates of murder, &c, than the USA. Well, sure, but that is not particularly informative on predicting how much US violence would go down if the US started banning guns: the informative bit of info is how much UK violence went down after the UK started banning guns.