"There's too many guns in America." According to what standard? I mean, I know there's many guns per...
"There's too many guns in America."
According to what standard? I mean, I know there's many guns per person in the U.S., many more than most other nations. But to me, that just means we're more awesome than those other nations.
It seems to me that people just think, "more guns means more death." But the data doesn't show that. Vermont and Iowa have many more guns than most European nations per capita, and yet comparable homicide and suicide rates (and sometimes lower suicide rates).
Further, we know that as guns per capita has increased in the U.S., violent crime has decreased, as it has in many other countries, while their guns per capita have, in some cases, decreased.
While a gun is an effective tool for killing, the data does not back up the claim that "more guns mean more death." Guns can be a contributing factor to more death, but absolutely not a sufficient or necessary factor.
According to what standard? I mean, I know there's many guns per person in the U.S., many more than most other nations. But to me, that just means we're more awesome than those other nations.
It seems to me that people just think, "more guns means more death." But the data doesn't show that. Vermont and Iowa have many more guns than most European nations per capita, and yet comparable homicide and suicide rates (and sometimes lower suicide rates).
Further, we know that as guns per capita has increased in the U.S., violent crime has decreased, as it has in many other countries, while their guns per capita have, in some cases, decreased.
While a gun is an effective tool for killing, the data does not back up the claim that "more guns mean more death." Guns can be a contributing factor to more death, but absolutely not a sufficient or necessary factor.
"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt."
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