Sure, and the point of my research is to address some of those issues.
As I said, in the 1990s, over 550,000 firearms were banned, which included handguns. Australia also banned handguns, essentially restricting them to people like Olympic sports trainees, and there's been no reduction in firearms homicides from that.
I would suggest that you may wish to pursue other methods, such as investing in youth deterrence programs and getting at youth when they are at risk of developing criminal behaviour. Those diversion programs have shown significant evidence of a reduction in homicide later on, as well as criminal violence. Even Public Safety Canada conducted a report in 2012 showing that some of the small programs that are performed in Canada had a 50% reduction in recidivism among juvenile offenders.
I would suggest that what you're doing probably isn't working because you're focusing on firearms owners who tend to be extremely low risk. They've been licensed, they've been screened and they are monitored daily, so your gain from spending a lot of money in those areas is very low, considering that those licences, for example—