Would stricter gun control reduce violence?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Would stricter gun control reduce violence?". Your opponent's style: Devil's advocate

I belive that gun control will to an extent lower violence but it will eventually lead to an increae in gun violence. 30% of shootings involve illegally purchased weapons which gun control will not help with and without civillians carrying guns their will be no stopping power to the aggresor. The majority of self defense cases dont even involve a single round being fired just the existence of a gun stops so much violejnce.

You're confusing two separate things. That "stopping power" argument assumes civilians with guns are trained marksmen in crisis moments, which they aren't. Most defensive gun uses are confrontations with people the owner already knows, not mass shooter scenarios. Your 30% illegal weapons claim actually undermines your position, because it means 70% of shootings involve legally purchased guns. If legal purchases enable illegal ones through straw purchases and theft, then stricter control directly addresses your own statistic. And if "just existing" stops violence, why do countries with far fewer civilian guns have lower homicide rates? Your argument needs an explanation for that.

Homocide rates in the united states are strongly based on the type of people and not the type of guns. Show me one statistic that shows that guns are the issue

Boom. The US firearm homicide rate is 19 times greater than France's and 77 times greater than Germany's. Same developed societies, same mental health rates, radically different gun availability. Your "people not guns" thesis collapses when identical populations with stricter gun laws have exponentially lower homicide rates. Demographics can't explain a 77-fold difference. What does?

Just because they kill more with guns dosn;t mean that they dont jusr kill more in general. US knife violence statistics are also extremly high because of political differences in the US leading to many deaths

Wrong. If it were purely about culture, homicide methods would scale proportionally. They don't. The US has higher gun deaths but comparable knife attack rates to Europe, not 77 times higher. That's the smoking gun you're avoiding. Yes, the US has different social conditions, but those conditions don't magically make knives deadlier. Guns do. Switzerland has similar political polarization and gun ownership, yet far lower homicides because their regulations are stricter. Culture matters, but access determines lethality. You're conflating two things to dodge the evidence.