Out of curiosity, do you happen to have some statistics comparing countries by overall/total homicide? A more compelling argument, and one I do not know if I holds true or not, would be if states with more guns and/or less restrictive gun laws have more total homicide than states with less guns and/or more restrictive laws. Then we can check the same by country. If the argument against guns is that they make it easier to kill, and kill numerous people, then they should also increase total homicide rates, not just gun homicide rates. People who argue against stricter gun control say that people will just kill each other in a different way. Show the statistics that indicate this is not true, that states with less guns and more restrictive gun laws have less overall homicide. This, if true, would be quite a compelling argument IMO. Someone killed by a gun is no more dead than someone killed by any number of things, so I am more interested in total homicides if safety and life is truly the topic of discussion.