Dugout Dad wrote:jonriv wrote:Dugout Dad wrote:In Mexico, a citizen is 600% more likely to die from gun violence than a citizen in the USA.
Btw, guns are banned in Mexico. OOPS![]()
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Check out this murder rate chart for all countries, based on what our MSM tells us, one would think we were in the top five. No, the USA is way down the list. (you may have to click on the assending/desending rate button, the USA is at 4.2)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate
Not sure I would use this...... U.S. has a higher murder rate than either Iraq or Palestine and is about 4 times greater than Western Europe(although it used to be ten times greater)
Makes the case, every Mohammed, Matloob, and Harry in Iraq and Palestine are carrying and are locked and loaded. Every criminal there knows that the people they rob will fire back.
Another example, Venezuela is also a gun free society, their murder rate is 45.1, also, Jamaica is at 52.2
Remember, the US murder rate is 4.2
Chicago, the most gun and ammo law restricted city in the U.S. has a third world murder rate of 30.
You are too selective with your examples..
compare us against Germany, France Czech Republic....
NYC has the most restrictive gun laws in the country and is by far the safest large city in the country(Most of their success has come from very proactive police work against violent criminals)
Our murder rate(4.2) is around the same as it was in 1958. Way down down its peak of 12.5(early 90's ?), but still by far the worst of all of developed countries. Do you think 4.2 is OK?
I am not some left wing whoosie( I'm a right leaning, republican banker, veteran who qualified "expert" on the M16A1(and A2) I fully support the second amendment, but would love to see some common sense gun laws and would love to see the NRA be part of it. I find the comments by most of the left regarding guns to be very ignorant, but are sometimes worried by those on the far right with "bunker" mentalities.



























