All information in this table dated before 1993 comes from the UN Demographic Yearbooks for 1993 and 1992. When the USSR was in control of the countries of Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and the Ukraine, it implemented a total gun ban. This ban is still in effect today, even though the USSR no longer controls these countries. If you notice, of the top 6 countries in table 1.1, five out six of them are countries that have a total gun ban. That would almost completely disprove that a total gun ban is even the slightest effective.
Crime finds a way.
Look at history. By banning guns, the only people who will have them are those that seek to get them illegally, the ones who will commit the crimes. Peaceful societies do not need general gun bans and violent societies do not benefit from them. Tell YPA members what you think on the YPA Message Boards.