Guy, I've posted these kinds of stats until I'm blue in the face.
For the record, we have 11,000 gun homicides and 19,000 gun suicides every year (as well as 800 accidents). because we have too many guns out there in the hands of the wrong people.
But you can't really argue the specific causes because you have no links. That's the problem. There is always a reason why things happen and usually when someone doesn't want you to know the whole story there is usually something they're trying to hide that sort of blows their argument all to hell.
I've posted the links, guy.
The fact is, we had 11,101 gun homicides last year, and Germany had 250. Japan had 11, the UK had 42.
The reason- we have too many guns, they are too easy to get and the wrong people get them.
And yeah, not just the glaringly obvious guys like Lanza and Cho and Holmes.
I mean a guy like my neighbor, who shot out his window, the police didn't take his gun after he lied. (He tried to claim someone shot in at him even though there was no bullet in the house and the glass was blown outside.)
A few weeks later, he shot himself.