...can be said of places such as Australia where they also have restrictive firearms rules in place. The interested can find statistical details in [link|http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0226493644/qid=1035299575/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/104-0534588-2751148?v=glance&n=507846|More Guns, Less Crime].
Reduced argument:
- Populace is unarmed
- Crooks know this
- Crooks have guns (they're already crooks; who cares about one more charge?)
- Crooks use guns in crime to, er, encourage populace into complying with demands