I'm pretty sure that strict gun laws by themselves do not make a "safer" society - whatever safer means. Morality, stress, & mental status have to be factors. I saw in the last couple of weeks where Britian is now wanting to ban knives because of the knife murder rate - higher I understand than the murder rate in some of our big cities here. If man is of the mind he wants to kill someone (whether mad at the individual or just wanting to make a point), he will find a way to do that whether it's gun, knife, club, bomb, or whatever (and he probably doesn't care if his weapon of choice is legal or illegal).