Once again, a study from an organization that you would never accuse of being “gun-loving” or “right-wing”
seems to disprove the myth that the availability of handguns increases murder rates. In fact, it doesn’t.
The Harvard study attempts to answer the question of whether or not banning firearms would reduce murders
and suicides. Researchers looked at crime data from several European countries and found that countries with
HIGHER gun ownership often had LOWER murder rates.
http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/org ... online.pdf