Posted on 10/23/2016 7:03:05 AM PDT by rktman
On October 22 The Telegraph published a map showing the U.S. leads the world in private firearm ownership but does not even crack the Top 10 when it comes to firearm-related deaths.
According to the Telegraph, the countries with highest per-capita gun ownership are:
USA 112.6 guns per 100 residents Serbia 75.6 Yemen 54.8 Switzerland 45.7 Cyprus 36.4 Saudi Arabia 35 Iraq 34.2 Uruguay 31.8 Sweden 31.6 Norway 31.3
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Bfl
It’s because the Swiss have no standing army (that I’m aware of). Every adult male is a member of their militia.
http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/tools/interactive-map-charts-on-armed-violence.html
Selecting the Violent Deaths rates per 100,000 population, 2010 - 2015, function, notice that it is ALL warm weather countries!
The old ‘Equator Effect’, rears it ugly head?
Toddlers = gangbangers in drive by shootings. Yes they actually make thus claim.
AS the (1940) German officer said to the Swiss Officer...
“Our army is five times bigger than yours! What would you do if we invaded!”
Swiss Officer: All our troops would fire five shots, and go home!”
Perps age——24. Classified aa a “youth”.
Yup. Liars!
All the more reason the ATF should be turned into a convenience store.
I know but thanks for stating the obvious.
Bookmarked. This is fodder for a hundred conversations. The sad part is if you extract inner-city black-on-black violence in the United States the number is drastically even lower. And nobody in those cities cares so long as the Democrats maintain control there.
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