Danamal,
Just like drugs, guns will never be totally eliminated, but eliminating most and making just possesion a major crime would save thousands and thousands of lives per year.
Some Countries have tried to eliminate the slaughter and have been very very successful.
Here are the yearly number of Gun deaths in each Country per 100,000 of population (2010):
Australia........................0.13
New Zeland....................0.26
UK................................0.04
Canada..........................0.5
Japan............................0.00
USA..............................3.60
The USA rate of gun deaths per 100,000 of population is over ******27*******times higher than in Australia, who banned most gun ownership!
The rate of USA gun deaths per 100,000 of population is over ******90*******times higher than in the UK, who have a very limited number of guns.
Even after adjusting for population, for every person who dies in the UK from a gun, 90+ die in the USA!
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Even just cutting the slaughter in half would save 16,081 lives per year, thats five and a half 9-11 attacks per year.
That is 16,081 fathers, brothers, mothers, childeren, friends and yes Australian baseball players.