Specifically gun violence ? Yeah , sure , if you make it hard for the average person to get a gun then they ' ll use something else . That ' ll fix gun violence while increasing the statistics for other weapons . Which won ' t actually fix anything at all . If you look at the UK , they ' ve made guns pretty tough to get . They don ' t see very many shootings , but violent crime is actually on the rise over there , as well as use of knives in crimecrimesurges 16 innewfigures . html while gun violence and violent crime are declining in the US . behindthedeclineincrime # 5 a 5 ff 02 c 7733 I ' m not saying that heavily restricting guns is going to increase crime . I ' m saying that it ' s pretty much irrelevant . People would be patting themselves on the back and saying they solved gun violence while their neighbor gets stabbed .