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I live in a country where less than 7 people in every 100 owns a gun and where there are less than 50 homicides per year due to firearms. You live in a country
by whyleyc 14y ago
I live in a country where less than 7 people in every 100 owns a gun and where there are less than 50 homicides per year due to firearms.
You live in a country where 88 out of every 100 citizens owns a gun and with less than 5% of the world's population, you are home to roughly 35–50 per cent of the world's civilian-owned guns. [1]
You have a cultural problem that other countries simply do not have - more guns do not make you collectively "safer".
[1] http://m.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/jul/22/gun-homicides-ownership-world-list#data http://m.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/jul/22/gun-homici...
- kevincennis 14y agoThat has to be 88 guns per 100 people, not 88 gun owners per 100 people - right?
- whyleyc 14y agoIt's unclear from the data: http://m.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/jul/22/gun-homicides-ownership-world-list#data http://m.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/jul/22/gun-homici... https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0AonYZs4MzlZbdExSbktqRWpLMjNUMkFGVk5VODRyTnc https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0AonYZs4MzlZbdExS... http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/publications/by-type/yearbook/small-arms-survey-2007.html http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/publications/by-type/yearbook...
- damoncali 14y agoThat's correct. http://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp#ownership http://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp#ownership
- ycombobreaker 14y agoRe: 88/100 citizens owning a gun, can you provide any evidence to that effect? A relatively recent Gallup poll put the rate at 1/3 with many gun owners owning multiple guns. Like you would expect out of most hobbies. [1] http://www.gallup.com/poll/20098/gun-ownership-use-america.aspx http://www.gallup.com/poll/20098/gun-ownership-use-america.a...