Not sure if trolling or really really stupid.

60 % of the counted homicides are suicides? Doubt it. Pretty sure those are in another statistic.
Or the word homicide means something totally different than I think it does... Feel free to correct me if it means something else than one person killing another?

I think Relcored gave a few good points that I have to think about, especially in his last post and especially about pros and cons.
Bus as far as I can see, the US has a problem with their number of intended killings. And the reason are either somewhere deep in their society (which is possible because they have the most concurrence based system) or it's because guns make killing easy.

No one would suggest 1 gun = 1 murder.
And people will find ways to kill each other, no denying that. Murder rate also has a lot to do with development status of the country etc.

But guns make it so easy.
You couldn't have something like Las Vegas happening with a kitchen knife. Yes, there are other options (like a Truck driving into a group of people), but guns make it easier (Try a school shooting with a truck).

Same can be said for suicide. There are plenty other options. But guns are much faster, so there is no "thinking twice", or stoping mid way.

Ok, I especially agree with the problem of getting the guns away from their owners. And I agree with the point - even so you didn't specify it - that rural areas with no police should be treated differently than big cities - especially those cities with ghettos.
And I want to thank you for the clarification, that most cities which have the actual problems are already working at it.

But no one ever stated guns = killings. That's close to a strawman, because everybody knows there are other possibilities of killing. And there are a lot of factors that come into play before somebody kills somebody else, that's true. But guns make it far easier than for example a knife. With a gun you automatically aim at the biggest area - the chest. It doesn't really matter where you hit your target, as long as you get a shot in that area you have a good chance of killing him. While a knife is usually used either for cuts (rarely deadly - I've seen people with multiple big cuts sit calmly at the doctor) or stabs to the stomach (deadly in the field, but in a city... not so much.) So yes, people will still try to hurt each other, with or without guns. But guns have the higher potential to kill, even if you don't specifically want it. Not to forget the psychological effect, that a second stab with a bloody knife has compared to a second pull on the trigger.
Same goes for suicides. In countrys without legal guns, people who work in law enforcment have a much higher suicide rate than normal people, because they have an easy access to the quickest way.

My other problem is, that the US might not have the highest rate of intentional killings in the world. But your rate is 5 times higher than that of Britain, Germany or France and 3 times higher than that of Canada. Sure, people are safer than in many african states or even in one of your neighbours (Mexico), but how is that an achievement? Compared to states with a corrupt police and gangs ruling whole areas the US is safe. Great.

The US are a rich conuntry with a great law enforcement and a lot of freedom in multiple ways. Even to degrees that aren't healthy anymore imho. And as such they should be measured by high standards.

So I agree: we can see that gun ownership does not increase murder rate. (In pure numbers of owned guns.) But nobody sane would ever claim it does. Neither have I.
Still I can only see two conclusions:
Either the free access of guns increases the murder rate. (Which is still 3-5 times higher than that of comparable countries.)
Or - as you claim and I give your thesis a higher chance of being correct than my statements till now may make you think I would - the number of intentional killings would remain the same, with or without guns. Which means, that the US citizens are simply 3-5 times more likely to kill each other than comparable citizens - which I meant when I said, the society there could be ***ed up.

Thank you for your time and the informations though. I you think I got something wrong or if I don't get a point of mine (most likely because of my bad english) feel free to point it out or ask.