Originally Posted By: sinij
All I ever have to say on this topic is:

List of countries by firearm-related death rate

US is only behind South Africa, Colombia and Guatemala.

Even Mexico with all its organized crime problems has less firearm-related deaths.

Yes, being an idiot (dangerous one at that) is your constitution-protected right. If you exercise this right you should be responsible for your actions. Get gun "driving license" and "gun insurance" if you ever plan to take your gun anywhere outside your property line.

Have you read Darwin Awards (stupid ways to kill yourself), specifically gun category? Fun fun

Try the same thing when checking areas where CC is authorized in the US and where it's not.

hint: usually big cities have low numbers of people carrying and have more crimes.

Also, check the numbers for assault, rapes and other violent attacks which are the kind of shit deterred by citizen owning weapons.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_rap_vic-crime-rape-victims
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_ass_vic-crime-assault-victims
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_gun_vio_hom_ove_hom_rat_per_100_pop-rate-per-100-000-pop
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_per_100_peo-murders-per-100-000-people
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_pro_cri_vic-crime-property-victims
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_rob_vic-crime-robbery-victims


I like the wikipedia source associated with the statement about Mexico : data comes from 1996 while the drug war got crazy batshit insane after the 2000.
Also, what I like about Wikipedia and the Mexico numbers is how they give the details while the source paper says : "Mexico is included in the 36 countries even though it did not report on firearm deaths for which intentionality could not be determined, because firearm deaths of undetermined intentionality represent on average <8 % of the total firearm mortality of each country."

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