It is a good thought, so i found out what you are asking for and i found this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder#Demographics

there is an interesting picture there.

BTW, unfortunately "the [murder] rate of the United States is among the highest of developed countries, around 5.5 in 2004,^[10] with rates in larger cities sometimes over 40 per 100,000." quoted from the link

Yeah we all know the murder rate in the US is among the highest. It doesn't give a good argument for gun abolishment though. Making everything illegal isn't always the right way.

 i didn't meant anything with these data but i were just answering you, didn't you want to know it? what did you mean with:

"why don't you just take the total murder count instead of the firearm murder count? "

Well I meant you should probably use that data instead of just the firearm count...if you're going to put out data. I'm still wondering where this is going. Yeah, the culture here sucks and there's lots of stupid people killing others, but I'm not convinced that guns are the problem, and whether or not making them illegal would help either.

And just because there are more guns does not mean there will be more violence. You should also be aware that the US has a very diverse culture with people from all nationalities, religious beliefs, and backgrounds living next to each other. People disagree, and some take it too far.

I will only state this once, as I firmly believe it. More people owning guns (responsibly) can only mean less crime as criminals are less likely to walk into a store and rob it if there is the potential that 15 people in the store have guns. Contest it if you like, but there's a quote that fits this idea to a tee:

"You cannot invade mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass." - Yamamoto http://www.skylighters.org/quotations/quots6.html

Ok, so as long as something is legal, then it's perfect from an ethical/moral/ideological point of view ? Wow, interesting. So I guess laws never change in your country ?

Seriously, I agree with you : firearmes are not the origine of crime.

However, they happen to be, generaly, far more lethal than others basic weapons. Before you're able to stop someone with an uzi, he can do a LOT more casualties than someone with a knive or a baseball bat. That is, unless you run faster than a bullet... (i'm not). Firearms create "death opportunity", and that's "normal", since they don't have any other purpose.

Do you think that grenade or rocket launcher or C4 should be sold at Wallmart for self defense ? Probably not, because you think it's far too destructive and dangerous, even disproportionate. I do think the same about firearms.

Firstly, most countries are highly diverse. The US is neither exceptional nor unusual in this regard.

Secondly, the data appears to always suggests otherwise. The more weapons available the more crime, all else equal. The US gun laws are undeniably irresponsible and are fundamentally an artefact of a less civilised time.

I only want you to think about the posible link between firearms and crimes.

http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius_04/offenses_reported/violent_crime/murder.html#table2_9 (FBI data)

14,121 murders in 2004 - 9,326 were with firearms = 4795 murders without firearms. think about it

@Andir

i think you have named the problem, the responsability, so you have to be sure who you are selling the firearm to, because you can be selling a gun to a murderer.

I'm pretty sure most gun ownership is actually outside of the large cities.

Now illegal gun ownership that's a different story. 

What the States should do is the same they did with the age limit for drinking, put a consequence for everybody.

I'm not for complete abolishment of firearms, but I am for limiting the number of firearms a person can own.