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Originally Posted by edslunch
I don't have statistics at hand but it seems like most stats I've seen in the past show the per capita firearm death rate in the US being significantly higher than other developer nations. The simplest answer to throw out is that this is a direct result of the freer availability of guns. But as other point out, guns don't kill, people do. Does this mean that the US just has a higher proportion of homicidal people?
Does anyone dispute that the US has higher gun death rates? Does anyone care to speculate why that is?
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We have a big gang problem here in the states. These are the same people that would get weapons no matter if they were illegal or not. Even in Alabama (Birmingham) it's not the safest city but I don't hear too much about gun violence here. It's the New Yorks, LA's, Chicago(were in ILL gun laws are ######ed) that give the rest of the country a bad name. I wonder how many shootings happen in rual Iowa, Montana, Minnesota, ect