Gun laws vary state to state, so that doesn't really tell us the whole story. Look at these numbers, all per 100,000 from 2006: Canada - 1.9 States with citie

Gun laws vary state to state, so that doesn't really tell us the whole story. Look at these numbers, all per 100,000 from 2006: Canada - 1.9 States with cities that have VERY strict gun laws: Illinois - 6.1 Michigan - 7.1 Louisiana - 12.4 (!) States with lax gun laws: Montana - 1.8 Idaho - 2.5 North Dakota - 1.3 Now, admittedly, I cherry picked those to prove a point that you can blur the numbers to show what you want them to show, and I can just as easily pick numbers from strict gun law states with really low numbers and states with historically lax laws with higher numbers. We could go back and forth all day long like that, but I think that this paper, or whatever it is does make a pretty valid point which is that gun control doesn't really have the desired effect. Whether you look at entire countries, or individual states or municipalities, you will always find examples of strict gun laws with lots of violence, and no gun laws with almost no violence, and vice versa. We really just need to take a step back and realize that we are coming at this violence problem the wrong way and that the time, energy, and money we keep using to push for tighter gun control, is all wasted on something that likely would not work, and we're taking all those resources away from research we should be doing to find a real solution to the problem. Links for the numbers I found: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Canada http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Canada http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/murder-rates-nationally-and-state http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/murder-rates-nationally-and-...