[tuccillo]

The number of gun deaths due to suicide is actually worse - it is almost two-thirds. You are absolutely correct - we have a mental health problem.

Originally Posted by MDLNB

Half of the gun deaths in America are suicides, which means if they didn't have a gun then it would be razor, pills, bridge, etc.

Maryland has one of the strictest gun laws in America and has one of the highest gun related death rates. Laws are not the answer.

Out of 218 countries USA is not even in the top 100 countries for murders by population ratio. And the USA has the highest gun ownership in the world.

Murder is not a gun problem. Murder is a world problem, not specific to the USA. Guns are a convenient tool of murder/suicide but not necessary to achieve the goal of death. As a matter of fact, the Americas has the lowest murder conviction rate in the world, with less than 25%. We have a problem, but it's not guns. America has a mental health problem that is not isolated to just the USA.

You are not going to eliminate murder any more than you can eliminate air pollution. You can do a few things to act as a band aid, but you will never eliminate it. You have seen how much gun control does as far as stopping murder. Cities with the strictest gun control have the highest murder rates.