The Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy studied the issue worldwide. It found that gun ownership has an inverse relationship to crime. Luxembourg, where guns are banned, has a murder rate 10 times that of Germany, where the are 30,000 guns per 100,000 population.

In the late 1990s, England moved from strict gun control to a complete ban. By 2000, it had the highest violent crime rate in Europe, surpassing that of the U.S. To conserve criminal justice resources, England no longer investigates burglary and minor assaults. Muggers and robbers are released with a warning.

I cannot think of another instance where a crime is committed and an inanimate object is blamed. Not one gun control proposal would have stopped the tragedies in Newtown, Conn.; Aurora, Colo.; or Tucson, Ariz., where Gabby Giffords was shot. Sidwell Friends – the school of choice for the Clintons and Obamas – has 11 armed guards without Secret Service.

If we are serious about crime, the whole issue of guns should be moved from an emotional debate to a rational, intellectual, fact-based debate. There are nearly 290 million guns in the U.S. If guns were to blame, the whole U.S. would be a war zone.

It’s time to get a filter after elections, get back to some form of civilized behavior. No one person can be such a threat to humanity that they have to be blamed for everything that goes wrong in this country.

We, as a country, cannot afford to have politicians who are so insecure and mad that they didn’t get their way in the elections that they blame talk show hosts, radio personalities or elected officials of the opposite party for something so tragic.

I am tired of the partisan excuses, threats and insecurities. Grow up!