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It did in the UK. Not only did we ban guns, we also made carrying them a criminal offence. Nobody, not even crims, now casually carries guns around, because they know if they get stopped and searched, and the gun is found, they're heading straight to the clink. So the only people that carry guns are (a) the few that have a genuine reason to, like airport security, and (b) crims carrying with intent, and the latter can get chucked into the clink directly with the gun carrying being direct proof of that intent.
But you go on believing gun control doesn't solve these problems if you want. The evidence from everyone else that has tried it is that (a) it works and (b) we're not going to throw our gun control out on the grounds of it being useless, because it isn't. Of course it doesn't solve the problem 110% and there are OCCASIONAL, SURPRISING news reports about a shooting, not the routine business it is in the USA.
And your comment about combatting the bourgeois is just ridiculous. they'll just come after you with a bigger gun and more security than you can shake a stick at. Sure you might pop something off at one of them but the rest'll blow your arse away in no time.
This argument is hardly worth having anyway. Once America decided guns were more important than kids' lives the gun lobby won. When you've decided kids are more important than guns we can talk further.
Going to need some sources on that one, bud.