BTW, for those who don't believe that Firearms Control works, consider this - in the whole of the UK (population 60m) in 2005/6 there were 50 (yes, that's FIVE-ZERO) homicides by shooting, and 74 in the previous year (source: Home Office Statistical Bulletin ISSN 1358-510X, 25.1.07).

How would that extrapolate against a population the size of the US (at a guess 400m) - between 340 and 500? So how many homicides were there by shooting in the US last year?

QED.