Admiral Rockwell Tory
Diamond Member
France was worse and demonstrated that gun bans do not work....
But the fact that the US has 10.5 deaths per 100,000 people compared to France's 2.83 per 100,000 means absolutely nothing.
As was posted earlier in another thread, take out the minority gang violence and where do we rank? Right about with France and their laws are more strict.
Show me the stats.
Looking at the breakdown of the firearm deaths per state, some of the states with the highest death rates (Alaska, Wyoming, Montana) don't have much minority gang violence.
The data you cited was from 2015. In 2015, the major city in my state had homicides due to gun deaths triple over the previous year. Now what could possibly lead to that much of an increase? Gang violence?
We have a winner!
How do you explain the higher death rate in all of the states that have less gun restriction (like Alaska, Louisiana, and Mississippi) and a lower death rate in states that have more gun restriction (like Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Hawaii)?
Larger populations in a more confined area in MA, RI and HI. Also, higher incomes in that there are not too many poor people in those states either due to the high cost of living.