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If it has no effect,why remove it? Its actually good business. Actually,removing guns could cause more issues. Gun control is no real solution based from this excerpt from the links below:

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A cop cant prevent somebody firing a bullet with an illegal weapon. Crime prevention usually works with deterrence and punishment, not with some sheriffs patrolling your home.

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I believe that Police are there for law enforcement

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Balkans? The only thing that can prevent crime here is a gang with ak 47's. Unfortunately,gangs rarely adhere to laws.
I dont think you know balkans as much as I do,especially Albania,Serbia,Macedonia,Kosovo etc.

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I recall reading through a statistic that 96% attempts to "defend" yourself with a firearm are failures, but since I can't remember where, I won't use it as argument. Still, it seems reasonable. Stress, fear, panic, element of surprise - guns are worthless whenever one of those appears, and those are extremely common mug/rob hazards. Most of the time at least one of those is a given.

I'm really puzzled why people invest in a stack of shotguns instead of getting a solid alarm system. it's not going to fail when you're panicked, for one...

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One out of thirty-one burglars has been shot during a burglary. [FN25] On the whole, when an American burglar strikes at an occupied residence, his chance of being shot is about equal to his chance of being sent to prison. [FN26] If we assume that the risk of prison provides some deterrence to burglary, it would seem reasonable to conclude that the equally large risk of being shot provides an equally large deterrent. In other words, private individuals with firearms in their homes double the deterrent effect that would exist if government-imposed punishment were the only deterrent.

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The researchers found that six percent of the sample population had used a firearm in a burglary situation in the last twelve months. [FN32] Extrapolating the polling sample to the national population, the researchers estimated that in the last twelve months, there were approximately 1,896,842 incidents in which a householder retrieved a firearm but did not see an intruder. [FN33] There were an estimated 503,481 incidents in which the armed householder did see the burglar, [FN34] and 497,646 incidents in which the burglar was scared away by the firearm. [FN35] In other words, half a million times every year, burglars were likely forced to flee a home because they encountered an armed victim.

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The most thorough survey of citizen defensive gun use in general (not just in burglaries) found that in well over ninety percent of incidents, a shot is never fired; the mere display of the gun suffices to end the confrontation. [FN43] The CDC study did not specifically ask whether a gun was fired. [FN44] Accordingly, it is reasonable to infer that burglary DGU is similar to DGU in general, and that most incidents end with the burglar fleeing at the sight of the armed victim, rather than the victim shooting at the burglar.

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Oh, and a gun can save you if your home is invaded. An alarm can't. The police won't get there in time. A shotgun is easy to hit a burgular with even when you are scared. Just point it in his direction and pull the trigger. 00 buckshot is pretty much a guaranteed knockdown and odds are he won't be getting back up.

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In other words, half a million times every year, burglars were likely forced to flee a home because they encountered an armed victim.

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If Obama wants to campaign against semi-automatic guns based on their function, he should go after all semi-automatic guns. After all, in 1998, as an Illinois state senator, he supported just such a ban -– a ban that would eliminate most of the guns in the United States.

But no published peer-reviewed studies by economists or criminologists find the original federal or state assault-weapons ban reduced murder or overall violent crime.

Since the federal ban expired in September 2004, murder and overall violent-crime rates have actually fallen. In 2003, the last full year before the law expired, the U.S. murder rate was 5.7 per 100,000 people. Initial data for 2011 shows that the murder rate has fallen to 4.7 per 100,000 people.

The big problem with gun control is that it is the law-abiding good citizens, and not those intent on committing the tragedies like those in Colorado, who obey these laws.  It is hard not to notice, but very aggressive gun control hasn’t prevented multiple-victim public shootings in Europe.

In last year’s shooting near Oslo, 69 people were killed and an additional 110 injured. Germany, a country with some of the strictest gun control in the world — it requires not only extensive psychological screening but also a year’s wait to get a gun — has been the site of three of the worst five multiple-victim K-12 public school shootings in the world, all in the past decade. There are more examples of attacks in countries with strict gun control, like in Austria, Britain, France, Finland and Italy.

The guns used for the attacks in Germany and Norway were obtained illegally. When individuals plan these attacks months or even years in advance, it is virtually impossible to stop them from getting whatever weapons they want.

If we finally want to deal seriously with multiple-victim public shootings, it is about time that we acknowledge a common feature of these attacks: With just a single exception, the attack in Tucson last year, every public shooting in the U.S. in which more than three people have been killed since at least 1950 has occurred in a place where citizens are not allowed to carry their own firearms. The Cinemark movie theater in Aurora, like others run by the chain around the country, displayed warning signs that it was prohibited to carry guns into the theater.  

All the public mass shootings in Europe fit this rule. Take Switzerland, which has very liberal concealed carry laws.

The country also has had several big public mass shootings over the last decade, but there again all of their attacks have taken place in the few areas where guns are banned.

Last week, President Obama promised that gun control was going to be an important topic in the presidential campaign. The issue was really always there, even if it wasn't being openly debated. Whoever wins the presidency will likely determine who controls the Supreme Court and the fate of gun control laws.  

Bans, like the gun-free zones, can be counterproductive.  Hopefully, the debate will finally acknowledge that well- intended laws are not enough.  

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If you're an active criminal then you can acquire guns and ammunition without too much trouble in a gun free country. While the majority of victims cannot.

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The Constitution says the people have the right to keep and bear [carry] weapons.

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I'm really puzzled why people invest in a stack of shotguns instead of getting a solid alarm system. it's not going to fail when you're panicked, for one...

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I guess some people dislike the idea of waiting 10-20 minuttes for actual aid.
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