BeardedBruce

So, the people in the UK are not so different- they just have less access to guns

That is the whole point surely. Less guns = less murders. It is not people that are in the wrong. It is the legislation that allows free access to firearms to anyone and therefore to more nutcases.

As to so they move to other means to kill people. Well, I'm not sure where to start with that one. Firstly, the gun has been the preferred tool of death since its introduction. Secondly, the gun is more likely to cause death than any of these 'other means' you allude to. Finally, rate of intentional homicide, by any method, is still many times higher in the USA than it is in the UK. The only difference I can see that accounts for such disparity is the gun culture.

DtG