Reply #261: Cherrypick? How about EVERY other advanced nation?

[billbuckhead]

Our demographics are very similar, that's why we're all called advanced nations. Tell me what's VERY different in demographics and what attitudes are different? Are you going to say American's don't value life as much and aren't as good a people? That seems to be what gun "enthusiasts are reduced to when trying to explain why we have mulitiples more gun crime and murder than Europe, Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. Often, gun enthusiasts try to compare the US to lawless third world nations or even nations engaged in or coming out of civil war, that's how bad American gun statistics are. Beside the metric system, tell me how we are so "different". France just had a month of rioting over race and religion and had less deaths, let alone deaths fromn guns than Great Falls Virginia has just had this morning.

BTW, I thought gun laws don't work. 10 years mandatory priosn time shouldn't deter crooks according to the gun lobby. Once again gun "enthusiasts" will say whatever they need to to defend the indefensible.