Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide?

A Review of International and Some Domestic Evidence in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Volume 30, Number 2. Spring 2007 

“Whether gun availability is viewed as a cause or as a mere coincidence, the long term macrocosmic evidence is that gun ownership spread widely throughout societies consistently correlates with stable or declining murder rates. Whether causative or not, the consistent international pattern is that more guns equal less murder and other violent crime.”