Why does America have so many guns?

The Washington Post ^ | 19 December 2012 | Harold Meyerson

[chris37]

Because the gun is the tool and means of freedom.

[23 Everest]

Because we fear our government.

[Jim Robinson]

Marxism kills.

[23 Everest]

And government should fear the people.

[tet68]

People who snap and lose it probably read articles
like this!

[JRandomFreeper]

Because the economy is bad, and we can't afford to buy more.

/johnny

[knarf]

Cuz we can

[cripplecreek]

The rate of gun ownership in the United States is 89 per every 100 people. No other advanced society has a rate even close to that.

So its not really every blade of grass but it is most blades of grass.

[Jonty30]

When you take out the major cities, America has a much lower crime rate than most other Western countries.

[Paladin2]

The USA is the arsenal of democracy.

[PoloSec]

Because fighting aggressors hand to hand is exhausting.

[ldish]

we are the melting pot of the world that has just about let the rest of the world take us over legally and illegally and we are about to melt down

[RugerMini14]

To be brutally honest, the corrections are embedded below.

Compare the rate of murder by gun or any other method in the United States to the rate in any other advanced industrial nation, and you’re forced to draw one of two conclusions: Either there are far more black people in this country than just about any other advanced industrial nation, or far more guns.

[Paladin2]

Uh, African-American 'rat controlled cities?

Control for that issue and get back to me on homicide rats.

[Buddy Sorrell]

Unarmed citizens are subjects not free men.

[Theoria]

Is that minus their major cities as well?

[Paladin2]

Uh, African-American 'rat controlled cities?

Control for that issue and get back to me on homicide rates.

[ldish]

‘When you take out the major cities, America has a much lower crime rate than most other Western countries.’

Ditto!!!!!!!!!!

[pabianice]

Why does American have so many bad newspapers?