Of course. If someone is hell bent on committing a crime they will find a weapon anyway. Sometimes it's just about ease of access and temptation. In many gun related homicides here - the crime was not pre meditated. People just happen to have gun on them and used it on slightest provocation or just because of ego issues.
Anyway I am not involved in for and against debate.I checked the data and compared it out of curiosity. There are always some plus and minus of every such action and at times we need to balance it out with proper checks.
You're not taking into account the actual population. You're just saying we have more people but less incidents with guns while America has less people and more incidents.
The real ratio should be somewhere within x amount of incidents for x amount of guns. Ie. If I have 10 people, 1 gun, 1 incident. I have a 100% rate of incident vs 10 people, 10 guns, 1 incident at only 10%.
So the average I'd say would be more along the lines of...
India
Estimated guns possession: 3.36/100
Estimated overall guns: 40,000,000
Deaths by Firearm in 2008: 6219
My ratio of deaths/guns: 0.0155% of the guns in India are actually used to take the life of a human, whether it be intentional or accident.
USA
Estimated guns possession: 101.5/100
Estimated overall guns: 270,000,000-310,000,000
Deaths by Firearm in 2008: 31593
My ratio of deaths/guns: 0.0117-0.0101% of the guns in America are actually used to take the life of a human, whether it be intentional or accident.
That means, in India, you have a higher chance of being killed by an owner of a gun then you do in America.
Furthermore, the main issue Americans are having about gun control isn't the fact to protect their families, to use for sport, etc. The main reason Americans are upset is because, to bear arms is our Constitutional Right. As an American, we're entitled to freedom. To take away just 1 Right on our Constitution is showing us that the government has the power to take away all our rights. We don't fight for weapons that can kill, we fight for freedom that our ancestors had to stain their hands and die for.