<i>Plenty of research has found a strong correlation between the amount of guns in an area and its gun homicide rate</i><p>This is of course a tautology.  If you were to magically remove that tool, do you really think Americans would become more peaceful???<p>As for your other numbers, no one denies we&#x27;re the top in per-capita civilian gun ownership.  Good laws + wealth lets us swamp Serbia and Yemen, after which comes ... Switzerland.  Known extremely violent country (well, they were notorious so back in the days of pike bearing infantry).<p>Not sure the U.K. is that useful, they&#x27;ve been suppressing civilian gun ownership for a century, and they&#x27;re on a small island.<p>&quot;Perhaps the single most supported contention in all of gun research is that more guns mean more gun deaths.&quot;<p>I&#x27;m sure there&#x27;s a Clint Eastwood quote about it mattering <i>who</i> gets shot.  More to the point, to the extent criminals are killed by civilians, what&#x27;s the <i>general</i> problem?