and yet in the US the states with the most strict gun laws have the most violent crime rates, and those states that have supposedly looser laws (still have to get fed approval in any state to buy a new plinker) have the lowest violent crime - "very easy to look up". Crimes happen mostly when they feel safe to commit them is my only guess. US has no knife laws, low stab rate - check out the stab rate in any country that has banned guns - the problem is people, and the only solution ever presented was turned down at the end of WW2. Bad parenting and violent cultures are the problem around the world - but war makes the rulers money - so there is no motivation to change people, just profit from fining/fees and imprisoning.