Flip the Assumptions

I often find it effective to focus an argument on the opposite side's assumptions. Weazel Zippers cites to an article where some gun idiot is suggesting a ban on "machine gun magazines", whatever those are. But, the article also quotes her as questioning "If guns made this country safer, we would be the safest country on earth, but we are far from it." But that isn't the issue. Rather, if guns are so murderous, why are murder rates as low as they are, and why does the US have one of the lowest overall violant crime rates in the world. If the gun idiots were correct, the US, at more than one firearm per capita, should be a never ending bloodbath. But it isn't. Rather, we see that homicide rates among white, non-Hispanic Americans is comperable to the most peaceful European countries. Also, if there was something particularly dangerous about AR rifles and similar, we should have seen murder rates go up since the expiration of the Federal assault weapon ban, but we have seen the opposite--declining homicide rates.