I forgot to say !!----Take a look at dear old Switzerland---there, the Army is comprised almost entirely of civilian militamen, or at leastit was until fairly recently.All males up to age 40, or maybe even 50, had to undergo regular military training, and were legally required to keep their weapons ( Rifles, pistols and sub-machine guns and relevant ammunition ) AT HOME , as part of the "quick response " military strategy of that nation.Did they become a nation of gunslingers ?? No !! Did the citizens of Basle indulge in an orgy of drive-by machine-gunnings ?? No!! Were the Gnomes of Zurich slaughtered in their banks ?? No!! But then ,the people of Switzerland are very picky about who they let into their country, are comparatively less racially diluted, and are not forced to live like rats in a shoebox, so perhaps gun-crime is more closely linked to socio-economic conditions, rather than firearms proliferation "PER SE " ????