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The attacks in Nice and Paris are the French equivalent of 9/11. They’re acts of war and are really outliers in statistics. You can’t really use these attacks a

The attacks in Nice and Paris are the French equivalent of 9/11. They’re acts of war and are really outliers in statistics. You can’t really use these attacks as an argument against gun control. In day to day life there are 0.21 homicides by gunfire for 100k inhabitants per year in France and 3.6 in the US (source: wikipedia). I think the real argument is there... But then again, as a Frenchman most of American politics are more and more foreign and impossible to understand to me (gun law, healthcare...)

cosmiccartel 9y ago
> In day to day life there are 0.21 homicides by gunfire for 100k inhabitants per year in France and 3.6 in the US (source: wikipedia). This is missing the point of the comment you're replying to. You're comparing homicide by gunfire, not homicide. It is true that Europe has a lower homicide rate in general, but there are exceptions. Lithuania is a European country with restrictive gun laws and a substantially higher rate of intentional homicide than the U.S. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...)
- cadlin 9y ago
  Lithuania has also halved their homicide rate over the past ten years. https://knoema.com/atlas/Lithuania/Homicide-rate https://knoema.com/atlas/Lithuania/Homicide-rate
  - jdpedrie 9y ago
    > Lithuania has also halved their homicide rate over the past ten years. The homicide rate in the US has also fallen considerably over the last 15 years. https://knoema.com/atlas/United-States-of-America/Homicide-rate https://knoema.com/atlas/United-States-of-America/Homicide-r...
- deleted 9y ago
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