hYDE, Your Comment withstanding, The Swiss with 7 million people have hundreds of thousands of fully-automatic rifles in their homes (see GunCite's "Swiss Gun Laws") and the Israelis, until recently, have had easy access to guns (brief summary of Israeli firearms regulations here). Both countries have low homicide rates Source: http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcgvinco.html Seems like there are factors at play wich is more than the black and white playfield of More guns= more death, it is more in the head, it becomes a social/cultural problem of institutinalising cho's sort of people or to have the incentive for it, something as an example, that works against ACLU (but for utilitarian purpose) for the professors to detect in the writing for potential perpetrators to avoid such Clombine and Vtech evil in the society.