Recent study finds that more guns does not lead to less crime. What are your thoughts on the issue?

I think studies on correlation between gun ownership and violence miss the point entirely, whether they find positive or negative correlation. A gun is a method of violence, not the violence itself.

Pretty typical "study" conducted by the Medical community, which has a definite bias against firearms, and therefore consistently "cherry-picks" their data and subject groups to get the answers the AMA wants to see.

I'm actually pro-second amendment, but I do feel that Americans have a radical, bordering obsessive, stance on gun legality by comparison with the rest of the world. I did feel safer through my 5 years in Germany, and I believe that the stats would back that feeling up. Please, don't tell me to go live there. I'm a patriot. I love and proudly serve my country. I own and support gun ownership, but let's get real folks. It is not a coincidence that of 1st world countries, America has the highest per capita firearm-related death rate and also a higher per capita number of guns than ANY country in the world, including the war zones we all talk about, at more than 1 per person. That's per capita! Amazing considering the size of our population.

Our situation is not the same as Germany, because their country was swept for guns both by the Nazi party and by the Allies after the war. By comparison, we can't hope to actually get all of the guns off of the streets. So, in a way we're damned if we do and damned if we don't. There's no clear solution to the problem, but we should certainly do what we can to limit gun ownership to responsible citizens.

I'll tell you this though, when the zombpocalypse comes, there's no more prepared society in the world!

More guns do not lead to less crime, but that does not translate into less guns lead to less crime. There is a positive correlation between availability of guns and lower violent crime, if only because the criminal chooses a time when he is less likely to be confronted.

But I think the better point is that there is no close relationship between guns and crime, which of course suggests that gun control laws have little to no effect on crime. (And that's what we see, unless we see the reverse when more laws means more crime as in Chicago and Washington D.C.)

That means we are looking in the wrong direction, and we are looking there because so many politicians have a political investment in the outcome that may have nothing at all to do with making the nation safer, but has a lot to do with their personal philosophy.

Maybe we should be looking at mental illness. Maybe we should look for the causes of despair and hopelessness in our society. Maybe we should expect everyone to do something for the good of the country. An old saying is that you don't have the right to steer the ship if you haven't pulled on an oar - maybe we could learn from this.

Maybe we could remember that every weekend in Chicago more homicides are committed than any of the mass shootings in our history. Maybe there are more important problems to deal with and solve.

Maybe we just need to tell the fanatics to take a hike and see if people can discuss the issues and arrive at a non-political and non-partisan solution.

But I won't be holding my breath waiting for any sign of actual thought from the American public. As a group, we have the attention span of a four-year old.

These Cowards that commit these crimes alway's go to Gun free Zones. So your Study is not correct! Why not do a study on the States and Cities that have tougher Gun laws against the open carry States and Cities.

It's not about quantity, it's about quality. Put a single gun in the hands of someone well trained in the use of a firearm, and respectful of the weapon, and you have defense. Put a bunch of weapons in the hands of someone that is not well trained and negligent, and that is an accident waiting to happen.

The gun is merely a tool. Grant you, it's capable of inflicting more destruction than say a knife, but so does a pickup truck through a crowd of people. As long as we focus on the tools and not the individual, nothing will get corrected.

Simple numbers say that the more weapon around increase the probability of those weapons getting into the hands of those that should not have them.

I think that what is most often missed or glossed over in the entire debate concerning guns is (what I think) a very simple premise: The violence we see is not so much a "gun problem", as it is a "heart problem". If as a society we remove personal responsibility, if we remove the sanctity of life, if it's always someone else's fault and our moral compass just spins...then I think that removing guns would just mean we'd resort to using knives and blunt instruments to kill each other. Messier, but the result is the same. Anyway, just my opinion.

I take these "reports / studies" with a very small grain of salt. Anyone can and will manipulate to get their desired results then report only what they want to direct opinion. What I will put faith in is actual live reports from victims or credible witnesses. Take the defensive shooting in White Settlement church in 2022 where armed individuals stopped a shooting in progress and prevented a man with evil intent form inflicting more death and injury. Sadly 2 people died but so did the murderer. Good men with guns did work.