@MontereyJack,
Quote:but you CAN prevent a lot of them and make the act much more difficult
NO proof that you can prevent a lot of murders due to lack of firearms at all and as far making it more difficult so what?
If someone is mad enough to shoot their husband or wife then they are mad enough to knife or killed in other ways.
People had been killing other people both in retail and whole scale lots as in whole cities long before gun power had come along.
Wives and husbands are murdering each other in gun free England every day of the week currently.
footnote one: in gun free Japan the suicide rate is double what it is in the US and the US suicide rate is similar to EU nations.
Footnote two: there are states within the US that have as low or lower homicide rates as the UK also. Other factors then guns availability set the homicide rate.
Those states have firearms and yet have gun free homicide rates comparable to England such as New Hampshire,Vermont and Maine.