Originally Posted By: sinij
The U.S. gun homicide rate is 20 times the combined rate of other western nations.

I don't care about gun homicide rates, the important thing is the global homicide rate.
Because if I want to kill someone in France where owning a gun is hard I'm gonna stab, drive over, beat him, poison or use anything which I can get my hands on. Same thing for suicide. Also, what is the percentage of gun homicide in the US where the killer is legally owning his gun?

But one little thing in your study: "the study included [...]Canada, [...] New Zealand, [...] Sweden" in those countries you can carry a gun. And their gun related homicide rate is low. Which means this rate is not only due to gun carry laws.

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