Another look at gun control I’m never quite sure which argument against gun control is the most absurd. First, more guns do not make us safer. Just look at the latest statistics on gun-related homicides: currently the U.S. suffers 3.2 victims per 100,000 people, while Germany and the United KIngdom have less than .1 gun victims per 100,000. The main difference among these societies is the availability of guns. And what if other citizens had been armed at the sites of recent mass killings? The use of assault weapons in places like Aurora and Newtown rained death so quickly that …