Criminals Kill, Not Guns Though Boston’s mayor was quick to blame guns for his city’s violent crime problem, New Hampshire’s Union-Leader pointed out last week that a rise in the city's murder rate can be attributed to more criminals in the city. “Last year Boston Mayor Tom Menino blamed an influx of guns from northern New England for the city's spiking murder rate. But an analysis by The Boston Globe last week found a more plausible culprit. A rise in young men. Typically, cities that see large increases in their population of young males also see large increases in crime. Boston was no exception,” the Union-Leader explained. “If Boston officials don't want a repeat of 2005, they'd do well to turn their resources toward finding and locking up gang members and drug dealers rather than changing gun laws in New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont.”