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Those other countries do not have similar rates of mental health issues, or similar social situations at all. If you ignore guns entirely, the US still stands
by throwaway09223 4y ago
Those other countries do not have similar rates of mental health issues, or similar social situations at all.
If you ignore guns entirely, the US still stands out from other countries with an extraordinarily high rate of non-gun violence. It's more accurate to say that the US has a violence problem in general.
If you're truly interested in solving the violence problem, perhaps examine why the US is such a statistical outlier. And also, perhaps, why other countries like Switzerland have such different outcomes while still having extremely high rates of private gun ownership.
- tomrod 4y agoTopic today isn't boiling the ocean. Gun violence has two elements, access to guns and motivation. Working on either and both are key.
- throwaway09223 4y agoThe data doesn't support these assertions.
- squarefoot 4y agoSwitzerland rules for firearms ownership are a lot more restrictive than the US (background check for everyone, no automatic weapons, etc), and although the percentage of guns per 100 people is higher than other countries, still is about 1/4 of the US where there are roughly 5 firearms every 4 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_regulation_in_Switzerland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_regulation_in_Switzer... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_guns_per_capita_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_g...