More Americans Killed by Guns Since 1968 Than in All U.S. Wars — Combined

[Dr. Who]

It can't be crowding in cities. While some cities are worse than US cities, none of the major cities in Europe or Asia come close:



America is an outlier:

It couldn't be that no other country in the world has so many guns in the stream of commerce, could it? If you mix dense populations with poverty, crime and easy access to weapons. It also seems that the states with the highest rates of per capita gun ownership also strangely have the highest rates of gun homicides.
https://qz.com/437015/mapped-the-us-...st-gun-deaths/

[Mister D]

It couldn't be that no other country in the world has so many guns in the stream of commerce, could it? If you mix dense populations with poverty, crime and easy access to weapons. It also seems that the states with the highest rates of per capita gun ownership also strangely have the highest rates of gun homicides.
https://qz.com/437015/mapped-the-us-...st-gun-deaths/

The US has one of the highest rates if not the highest rate of guns per capita yet it does not have the highest rate of homicide in the world. That your contention is at odds with the facts is precisely the point. In fact, Canada is #12 and the Nordic countries are all in the top ten. Their homicide rates are minute, relatively speaking.

[Dr. Who]

The US has one of the highest rates if not the highest rate of guns per capita yet it does not have the highest rate of homicide in the world. That your contention is at odds with the facts is precisely the point. In fact, Canada is #12 and the Nordic countries are all in the top ten. Their homicide rates are minute, relatively speaking.

Those really tall red bars in the above graph actually indicate the highest per capita (i.e. per 100,000 people) gun homicide rate in the world. However, to be fair, it also includes South and Central America as well as Canada.

[Mister D]

You're not being "fair", Dr. Who. You're making a statement and then telling us why it's inaccurate.

[Mister D]

Let me put this in some perspective for you, Who. The homicide rate in Honduras is over 60 per 100K. El Salvador it's over a 100! In the US it's around 5. With our rate of firearms per capita you;d expect the apocalypse...but it ain't happenin'.