Many of those "Myths" have problems of their own. They don't provide enough actual data. Sure, New Your and California have high rates, but tie in numbers like urban density to see some interesting stats. And also, no numbers are posted about the incidents in Chicago and Washington DC. Did the number of crimes, or the percentage based off population?

Any stats game will never have a clear winner. This can be seen in the gun battles, in benchmarking wars with PCs, and many other things in general, because almost noone collects enough stats and finds good ways to tie them togther. Proof of this is that those myths try to shread the origional stats to pieces, while not providing decent stats of their own.

Yes guns have their problems. Yes, a gun is unsafe when used by an untrained person/family. And that same saying applies to many things. But the biggest problem is that guns are weapons plain and simple. There is no secondary use of guns beyond being used as a weapon, where as a car is a mode of transportation first, but can be used as a weapon.

If somehow we could elliminate every single gun on the planet at the same time, the world would be a bit safer. But any solution short of that will have problems. And I'm not saying that this is the answer either. Murders would still occur, crime would still exist. We need to address the root problems, clean up the urban areas, and start all teaching our kids better. Only then will things get better many years from now. Elliminating one problem will not help. And the "gun problem" falls under this.