It is true that laws will not legislate
away any behavior. But just because they do not do so perfectly, does not mean we should not have that law on the books to limit that behavior (particularly when there are victims involved).
Gun laws will not eliminate murder, but properly stated and executed they are likely to limit mass murder in occurrence or in magnitude of the carnage. It is past time we try that as a nation and maybe we can stop having the highest death by gun rates among the “high income” countries of the world.
This says we had 10.2 gun deaths per 100,000 people in 2010.
Wikipedia gives stats on the incidence of “intentional murders” by country and we rank 126th out 216 countries in terms of having the lowest “international murders per 100,000”. The US had 4.88 per 100,000 “intentional murders” in 2015.
Many low income counties have higher intentional murder rates - like El Salvador, Honduras, Venezuela, Brazil, Nigeria, Russia, and South Africa (if that be a low income country)
The difference between the 10.2 "gun deaths” in Table above and 4.88 “intentional murders” in Wikipedia (both per 100,000), is mostly due to suicides. Read ~2 suicides for every murder.
Informed by Data.
Driven by the SPIRIT and JESUS’s Example.
Promoting the Kingdom of GOD on Earth.