The problem with the studies that look at domestic violence and guns is that in the homes studied there is already an increased violent tendency that has no bearing on the presence of a firearm. Interactions with police and any number of other problems predate any incidents involving firearms. A violent death is going to occur in these homes with or without the presence of a gun. Ask o.j. and Nicole simpson...
Except this isn't shown throughout the world...there are a lot more countries that have absolute bans on firearm ownership that have higher rates of murder than the United States...there is a map that shows this on one of the other threads. The U.K. for example is seeing more and more crimes with guns, even though they are banned for most people.
As to denser populations and gun crime...that might be a chicken and egg argument...as cities grow, you tend to have the small group of elites that work to disarm the population...Chicago, D.C., and any other number of big cities...so is it a denser population that creates gun crime, or the lack of guns that creates the gun crimes...from looking around the country...the stricter the gun control for regular citzens...the more gun crimes you will have from criminals...
Another point mentioned elsewhere, by others...more citizens in the U.S. are buying guns and the murder rate has been dropping...a lot...in the last years...
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