Study On Australian Gun Laws: No Effect

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Since the crux of the pro-gun argument relies on this idea that more guns will bring down crime, once this is shown to not be the case, there's no reason to have them so widely available.

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Since the crux of the pro-gun argument relies on this idea that more guns will bring down crime, once this is shown to not be the case, there's no reason to have them so widely available.

If you have no effect either way, shouldn't one err on the side of individual rights instead of spending extra money to unnecessarily restrict them?

What about my individual right not to be around guns, which kill thousands every year by accident?  If they're not going to cut down on crime either way, let's restrict them to cut down on accidental deaths.

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Cite for "thousands" of accidental gun deaths a year?

http://www.anesi.com/accdeath.htm
Also, accidental gun deaths are underreported (http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/111/4/741)

What about the thousands of accidental car deaths a year?

And my individual right not to be around cars?

Pretty transparent logical fallacy there.  Cars have plenty of legitimate purposes other than killing other people, unlike guns.