A completely false statement. he's probably getting it from nationmaster... and if nationmaster is correct, then that's fairly accurate statement... but guns dont cause murders, ppl do... and, once again, if you look at states with the highest per capita gun ownership, they are all generally in the midwest and also have the lowest murder rates in the entire USA (some are lower than UK)... they have a more homogenized population... you know, or well, i could just say there are less black people over yonder as the case is here... in places like zambia, zimbabwe ("Rhodesia" RIP Ian Smith, the last true African Patriot, heil!), rwanda, etc... it's more along tribal lines.. then you get the whole religion thing going on in places like lebanon, ex-yugoslavia, nigeria, etc, etc, etc.