hmm...take away guns and people use knives? How many high capacity knives are available? How many people can be killed by one knife throwing nutcase as compared with one gun toting nutcase? Of course, the NRA says that if everyone had guns, we would be much safer...wonder how that worked for the fella in the Nevada Wal-Mart (the one who was gonna stop the shooters)?
We were specifically discussing gun crime (in this case, a gun massacre), but that's okay because the overall homicide rate is lower in Japan too, as this chart demonstrates. As you can see, their overall homicide rate is less than 10% of ours.Green Arrow wrote:
@IMPress Polly, what is the general homicide rate of Japan, Australia, and the U.S.? From all sources, not just guns.
Green Arrow (06-23-2014)