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Note that while the law-abiding citizens turned them in, the criminals did not and criminals still possess their guns!)
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Yes, but this only proves the irreversibility of the gun issue at best. Nothing more. And given the fact that there are a lot of guns in the US, it is easy to get a gun even if you do happen to have a criminal record.
The only thing you can do, when you enforce guncontrol, is to simply disallow the purchase of any gun, and only in the future the real effects of these measure would show.
As for homicides, suicide plays an important part in that statistic. Were the suicides part of the statistics? Otherwise the figures would make little sense of course, given the fact that a lot of homicides are accidental shootings of family members.
The same is true with taxation. If US taxation levels were substantially higher than in Canada, it becomes very attractive for US citizens to keep their money in Canda for taxation purposes. And there is but one measure that will get the Canadian money back in the US, and that is lower taxation levels than in Canada or where-ever.