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Originally Posted by QuadCityImages
Then wtf can we do??
For one, the US has almost 10x the population of Canada, so when comparing numbers of incidents any 1 mass shooting up there is equivalent to 8 or 9 here. So some of the numbers being thrown around about how we just don't care about human life "down here" or whatever compared to Canada are a bit misleading
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The thing is if you normalize the number of gun related in the US by population and compare those to the next 22 GDP ranked countries combined you still have a rate that is almost 20 times higher in the US than anywhere else. Numbers like this are no longer misleading as they are normalized. Gun deaths on an annual basis in the US is 4/100k vs 0.2/100k as per 2010 numbers. Considering that all the other 22 have gun control laws where the US doesn't, it's a good indicator that of the gun issue in the US.
http://www.politifact.com/virginia/s...te-20-times-h/
For sure it has nothing to do with the US caring less and more to do with the lack of gun control and cost of mental health help in the US. Also the money and lobbying involved in the US political process is also a problem. A survey in 2011 showed 95% of Americans were pro-automatic weapons bans and yet the NRA successfully lobbied to government to keep them legal.