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Originally Posted by vektor
People are misinterpreting the point here, yes assault rifles and ammo should obviously be made insanely hard to get but that won't really change much, it's a quick fix of the symptom but it doesn't assess the root cause.
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Looking at numbers and facts, I have to disagree.
Source (Washington Post) - large image:
On average compared to other developed countries, Americans are TWENTY times likelier to be killed by a firearm. For comparison's sake, it looks like in the chart there are 3.2 firearm homicides per 100,000 people in 'Murica. It's about 0.5 in Canada. This chart doesn't include Mexico but when you start getting curious about firearm death comparisons with Mexico, I think you may be in trouble.
Under reasonable logic, some serious level of restriction to firearms would likely lower that unholy number.