Posted on 12/19/2012 7:34:08 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Compare the rate of murder by gun 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 homicidal people in this country than just about anyplace else on Earth, or far more guns. We must either be home to more people who succumb to murderous rage or who kill out of the coldest of calculations, or it’s easier to pick up a gun and start shooting here than in any comparable country.
And yet, I’ve never heard even the staunchest gun advocate make the case that Americans are inherently more homicidal than everyone else. They repeat ad nauseum that people, not guns, kill people; but they don’t argue that there’s something about Americans that make them kill more than their counterparts in other nations.
Meanwhile, look at the numbers. In the United States, there are 3.2 gun homicides per 100,000 residents every year. Switzerland has the next highest rate of any advanced Western democracy, at 0.7 per 100,000. After Switzerland, the rate drops to 0.5 in Ireland and Canada; 0.4 in Sweden and Finland; 0.2 in New Zealand, Spain and Germany; 0.1 in France, Britain and Australia; and a flat 0 in Japan.
Want to argue that we have 32 times the rate of dangerous mental illness that they have in Australia? That Americans are characterologically 16 times more murderous than Spaniards or Germans? I thought not.
But in America, people who snap are a hell of a lot more likely to have a gun close by. 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.
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Because the gun is the tool and means of freedom.
Because we fear our government.
Marxism kills.
And government should fear the people.
People who snap and lose it probably read articles
like this!
/johnny
Cuz we can
When you take out the major cities, America has a much lower crime rate than most other Western countries.
The USA is the arsenal of democracy.
Because fighting aggressors hand to hand is exhausting.
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
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.
Control for that issue and get back to me on homicide rats.
Unarmed citizens are subjects not free men.
Is that minus their major cities as well?
Control for that issue and get back to me on homicide rates.
‘When you take out the major cities, America has a much lower crime rate than most other Western countries.’
Ditto!!!!!!!!!!
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