"Could not be more wrong most area's that have the most guns... Like in PA where I was from.. Gun violence is non existent." olddude 20 August 3:20

Dan, that statement didn't ring true to me so I looked it up. Here is what I found:

Pennsylvania Gun Violence Fact Sheet
"Pennsylvania has been one of the deadliest states over the last 10 years.
• From 2001 through 2010 there were 12,941 gun deaths in Pennsylvania—the fourth-most gun deaths of all 50 states.
• In 2010 there were 1,307 gun deaths in Pennsylvania, or roughly one every seven hours.
Every two days, three people are murdered by guns in Pennsylvania.
• There were 501 gun homicides in the state in 2010.
• From 2001 through 2010, 5,061 people were murdered by guns in Pennsylvania. That number is as many as all U.S. combat deaths in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined."

Guns_PA.pdf

Now, it is quite likely that the stats in Pennsylvania were quite different when you were growing up. As they were, in most places.