Ok, so you are not for abolition, but just against having guns in public. My question to you then, is how will a law forbidding guns in public stop criminals from carrying them any way? Criminals clearly don't care for the law and would still carry them. Speeding, etc. is easier to enforce because a cop can radar people- in this case it is very hard to tell who has a gun and who doesn't because they are so easy to conceal. The criminals will still have the guns and if it were legal, innocent people would have them to but law-abiding citizens aren't just going to be shooting at will. Either way, the criminals will carry them in the public and shoot them if they want to (including in countries that have banned such occurrences- handgun crimes still happen in Britain, etc.)
As for comparing to Canada, why not just compare within the countries- Britain before and after, Australia before and after, etc. I think we can both agree that from a scientific standpoint, those comparisons have fewer change in other effecting variables, making the data more conclusive.
As for comparing to Canada, why not just compare within the countries- Britain before and after, Australia before and after, etc. I think we can both agree that from a scientific standpoint, those comparisons have fewer change in other effecting variables, making the data more conclusive.