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Azred, gun control does reduce at the very least the impact or result of certain crimes, and makes other crimes harder to pull off - rob a bank with a knife? doable, but a hell of a lot harder.
The laws also bring scruitiny to those criminal elements seeking to buy guns. It has made it quite hard in Australia to just go out and get one.
Incidently our knife laws were severely toughened too. Limiting who is allowed to buy or carry what types of knives and bringing in controls for storage and transportation too. You'll see chefs travelling around with locked tool boxes etc...
The arguments for weapons control is not to erradicate all such weapons related crimes. Noone's that naive. It's about harm reduction and access reduction.
Make it harder for people to simply get a gun or a big knife and act on impulse with it. How many lives 'saved' as a result does it take for this to be seen as acceptable by the pro-gunners?
In my view - just one.
It's done a lot more than that in this country I can tell you.
That's why every time a cop is shot at it makes headline news here. Because it's so rare.
That's why every time a gunman shoots innocent bystanders the whole country goes into mourning.
Almost all gun related crimes here are between criminals.
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