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Gun Control & RKBA

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samsingh

(17,548 posts)
Mon Jul 30, 2012, 01:02 PM Jul 2012

Unemotionally looking at the effectivesness of gun control with real facts [View all]

Here's a very interesting read with real statistics:

Time to face facts on gun control
by Fareed Zakaria


Look at the map below. It shows the average number of firearms per 100 people. Most of the world is shaded light green – those are the countries where there are between zero and 10 guns per 100 citizens. In dark brown, you have the countries with more than 70 guns per 100 people. The U.S. is the only country in that category. In fact, the last global Small Arms Survey showed there are 88 guns for every 100 Americans. Yemen is second at 54. Serbia and Iraq are among the other countries in the top 10.

We have 5 percent of the world's population and 50 percent of the guns.

But the sheer number of guns isn’t an isolated statistic. The data shows we compare badly on fatalities, too. The U.S has three gun homicides per 100,000 people. That’s four times as many as Switzerland, ten times as many as India, 20 times as many as Australia and England.

Whatever you think of gun rights and gun control, the numbers don’t flatter America.

I saw an interesting graph in The Atlantic magazine recently. A spectrum shows the number of gun-related deaths by state. Now if you add one more piece of data – gun control restrictions – you see that the states with at least one firearm law (such as an assault weapons ban or trigger locks) tend to be the states with fewer gun-related deaths.

link:
http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/27/time-to-face-facts-on-gun-control/

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If you just look at incidents with firearms that sounds pretty bad for us Reasonable_Argument Jul 2012 #1
a quick change of subject, a diversion, a feint lol nt msongs Jul 2012 #4
Not at all Reasonable_Argument Jul 2012 #5
Nope...puts the OP in a more honest perspective ProgressiveProfessor Jul 2012 #6
Online Gun Sales electedface Jul 2012 #2
I don't think you know what are talking about, alabama_for_obama Jul 2012 #3
Your citation cites the Brady Bunch ProgressiveProfessor Jul 2012 #7
Private citizens during the FF's era owned warships, cannons and common military arms. OneTenthofOnePercent Jul 2012 #8
John Hancock owned his own warships... friendly_iconoclast Jul 2012 #12
Lieutenant Worf (Michael Dorn) owns a jet Fighter. OneTenthofOnePercent Jul 2012 #13
I wouldn't trust that website you linked to. Kaleva Jul 2012 #11
sounds like facts that favor gun control samsingh Jul 2012 #15
using Brady Campaign or VPC as a source is like gejohnston Jul 2012 #16
But how would banning intenet sales of guns accomplish anything? Kaleva Jul 2012 #17
for starrs it would have saved a lot of people in Norway where the shooter got his weapons over the samsingh Jul 2012 #20
He bought the high capacity magazines off the internet but not the guns Kaleva Jul 2012 #23
Bzzzt, not quite.. X_Digger Jul 2012 #24
he bought the higher size mazagines over the internet samsingh Jul 2012 #31
They were legal in Norway gejohnston Jul 2012 #32
the magazines were not legal in Norway samsingh Jul 2012 #33
how did they get though Norwegian customs? gejohnston Jul 2012 #35
Yet another misstatement of the facts ProgressiveProfessor Jul 2012 #29
Uunh, what "facts"? n/t PavePusher Jul 2012 #27
Repeating arms existed in the 18th century Trunk Monkey Jul 2012 #28
What? No ven diagrams? Remmah2 Jul 2012 #9
Post hoc ergo propter hoc gejohnston Jul 2012 #10
And even that isn't the whole picture... EX500rider Jul 2012 #14
You assert "real statistics" but the stats are not presented by demographics. If you do that then jody Jul 2012 #18
actually, i'm pretty intelligent so to your point i do reach a different conclusion samsingh Jul 2012 #19
OK, please share it with the Internet audience. nt jody Jul 2012 #21
i already have with all my posts samsingh Jul 2012 #22
Since government is not obligated to protect individuals from criminals how do you propose that jody Jul 2012 #25
Wow. You seriously have not been paying attention around here. Clames Jul 2012 #26
GIGO's law always applies ProgressiveProfessor Jul 2012 #30
Why are gun deaths treated as a seperate category? NewMoonTherian Jul 2012 #34
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