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Originally Posted by Nobama
If your goal is to kill someone or a group of people there are many ways to do that. Focusing on the type of guns used seems dumb. Shot guns are allowed in Canada and if these two people entered this building with shot guns I think they would have achieved the same result. How about knives? bombs? Guns don't kill people, people kill people. And as the evidence keeps coming in it looks like this is a planned attack orchestrated by the same religious beliefs similar to Paris - A place where guns are illegal.
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Top bar is Assault (other)
Middle Bar is Assault (Sharp object)
Bottom bar is Assault (Firearm)
Almost 2/3 of homicides in the US were commited by firearms. Actually sounds pretty reasonable until you look at the other comparable countries where only two others have firearm death rates above 50% (Greece and Italy; Portugal and France maybe close as well). And that's putting aside the fact that the homicide rate in general is towering over everyone else. If the US gun violence could even be cut in half, it MIGHT bring them down to respectable levels (albeit still well above everyone else).
Look at all those Latin/South American countries that are sending their spooky citizens to the US with comparable homicide rates between major US cities and their ENTIRE COUNTRIES.
Whew, finally a graph that favours the US. Wait, is that Afghanistan, Congo, Iraq and Pakistan? Great company there.
And finally, and most stunning IMO, accidental deaths by firearms!
..funny, it's almost identical to the first graph.
Yeah... there's a problem. I don't see how it's possible to deny it. Your only comparable firearms death rates are f***ing war zones.
http://www.humanosphere.org/science/...-s-rest-world/