From what I see, gun homicides are due to culture, not permissive laws. For example, Japanese and Swiss are law abiding people with low gun homicide rates and they stay that way when they move to the US. The easy availability of guns does not lead Japanese and Swiss immigrants to start shooting people at the American rate.
By contrast, Mexico has very strict gun laws while at the same time the criminals are waging war with all manner of weaponry on each other and innocent passers by.
Same thing for the south side of Chicago where gun laws are strict but gun homicides abound between black gangs. On the north and west sides of the city, where other people live, the gun homicide rates are below the national norm, even though they are under the same set of laws. The local culture drives the gun homicide for better or worse.
If you gave out loaded guns in the suburbs with every purchase of potato salad, the gun homicide rate would remain level because the middle class suburban culture does not shoot each other. However, if you handed out loaded guns in the ghetto with every purchase of Everclear, the streets would be paved with bleeding corpses
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