[ScottfromNJ]

“Compare the rate of murder by gun in the United States to the rate in any other advanced industrial nation”

Notice the use of the word “advanced industrial” to intentionally exclude countries like Mexico that have high gun murder rates even though guns are banned.

[paul51]

Why does America have so many guns?

Because we are the land of the free and the home of the brave

[Alaska Wolf]

people who snap

Lanza did not snap. He meticulously planned and executed mass murder. His is the face of pure, unadulterated evil!

[matt1234]

Many of the other mentioned countries have relied on the USA for defense over the years.

[Alaska Wolf]

Why does America have so many guns?

The same reason Americans have so many cars, boats, ATVs, computers, RVs, second homes, big screen TVs and college educations.

[MasterGunner01]

Attention WaPo: “An armed society is a polite society” — except in large American Democrat-run cities that are war zones. To paraphrase ex-DC Mayor Marion Barry: “If you take out the murders, crime in Washington is very low.”

[SVTCobra03]

Because they are our Liberty Teeth and the fact that the last defense against tyranny is an armed citizenry.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

Other countries use more primitive tools to murder.

[Organic Panic]

One word... Rwanda.

[GenXteacher]

“Why does America have so many guns?”
Because we are citizens, not subjects. Or, because we true Americans understand that guns are real power; not the artificial power created by legislation, or resolutions, or court decisions, or even money, and that the fundamental balance of power between citizens and government must favor the citizens. Perhaps, in light of that, because it would be sub-moronic not to.

[Victor]

Ummm...to protect ourselves from people like you.

[hosepipe]

So many guns for ultimate protection against federal, state and local givernment..
Sure they can still kill you but you can one or two of them with you..

Many forget how powerful the North Vietnamese were against over whelming forces..
But you also need to propagandize the traitorous members of your family and neighbors as well..

propaganda primer-—>> http://evansayet.com/blog/

[JouleZ]

It’s a big country. Three days can pass before you even get out of Texas....

[CharlesWayneCT]

A lot of countries like the idea of disarming everybody. And that is one way to reduce gun violence.

Our founders chose a different route — to arm everybody, thus still keeping a level playing field, and discouraging the government from overruning the citizens.

But in recent years, too many of our citizens have lost interest in defending themselves. And because of that, the criminals have gotten a free pass, and are killing more and more people more brazenly.

Because in our system of government, it won’t work if the law-abiding citizens crawl into holes and expect government to do everything. So those people who expect government to change their diapers are all upset that government can’t protect them — so instead of doing the sane thing, they want to disarm everybody.

One thing is clear — we’ll never have a genocide in this country. Because when we see it starting, people will rise up and stop it. Other countries, it was easy to commit atrocities, since the ruling class had all the guns.

If we had concealed carry for airplanes on 9/11, it is likely the death toll suffered by our country would have been less. EVEN WITH NO WEAPONS, one plane was able to overcome their attackers and stop their plane from it’s target.

[MarkL]

Is Mexico a "advanced industrial nation?" What is their homicide rate? It's important that we remember to count the 700 or so murders by guns supplied to the drug cartels by the Obama regime...

Mark

[444Flyer]

Self defense against mass murderers is a universal God-given right, and our Founding Fathers had the genius to know this long before these people came into being:

We all are familiar with Stalin, Hitler and Mao. All fans of unarmed citizenry.

Chiang Kai-shek (China: 1928-49)
Enver Pasha (Turkey: 1913-18)
Hirohito (Japan: 1926-89)
Hirota Koki (Japan: 1936-37)
Ho Chi Minh (North Vietnam: 1945-69)
Kim Il Sung (North Korea: 1948-94)
Lenin (USSR: 1917-24)
Leopold II (Belgium: 1865-1909)
Nicholas II (Russia: 1894-1917)
Pol Pot (Cambodia: 1975-79)
Saddam Hussein (Iraq: 1969- )
Tojo Hideki (Japan: 1941-44)
Wilhelm II (Germany: 1888-1918)
Yahya Khan (Pakistan: 1969-71)
Idi Amin (Uganda: 1971-80)
Ion Antonescu (Romania: 1940-44)
Ataturk (Turkey: 1920-38)
Francisco Franco (Spain: 1939-75)
Gheoghe Gheorghiu-Dej (Romania: 1945-65)
Yakubu Gowon (Nigeria: 1966-76)
Radovan Karadzic (Serbian Bosnia: 1991-96)
Babrac Kemal (Afghanistan: 1979-87)
Le Duan (Vietnam: 1976-86)
Haile Mengistu (Ethiopia: 1974-91)
Benito Mussolini (Italy: 1922-43)
Ante Pavelic (Croatia: 1941-45)
Antonio de Salazar (Portugal: 1932-68)
Hadji Suharto (Indonesia: 1967-97)
Tito (Yugoslavia: 1945-80)

[5th MEB]

Because we can. So, get bent.

[Razz Barry]

There’s a name for those gun buyers: Republicans. As the FiveThirtyEight blog noted Tuesday, the 2010 General Social Survey showed that 50 percent of adult Republicans owned guns, while only 22 percent of adult Democrats did. This gap in gun-ownership rates has swelled over the past 40 years: In the 1973 survey, 55 percent of Republicans and 45 percent of Democrats had a gun at home. Polls suggest this gap will continue to widen: In the 2008 national exit polls, the percentage of Democrats with guns declined as the age cohorts grew younger, while the GOP rate of gun ownership was the same across all age groups. Increasingly, then, it’s our shrinking Republican minority that is buying guns.

Everyone knows democrats lie. They're not going to admit to owning guns.

[Gene Eric]

Speak to the demographics, punk.

[piasa]

I note the author leaves out the tidbit that the US has more lawyers than the rest of the world combined; using his logic that more gun owners make more murders, more lawyers should make us more lawful.