Well, when we are all so scared of each other than we all pack heat, this is a good thing to you, how?
You would apparently prefer that only the bad guys are armed. How fucked up is that!
Or, I'm sorry, do you have some plan that will get the bad guys and crazies to begin obeying the law?
Didn't think so.
Dumbass, most people who are killed with guns kill themselves or are killed by someone they know. The bad guys aren't really the problem here. We are.
32,000 gun deaths, and according to the FBI, only 200 of them involved self-defense by a civilian.
Hey, guess how many gun murders we had last year? 11,000!
Guess how many gun murders JAPAN had last year? 11.
Why are you focusing on "gun" murders? Is murder not murder? So what if when Americans choose to murder someone there weapon of choice is a firearm? Dead is dead. You'd feel better if people were hacked to death like we've seen in other countries?
LOTS of countries (over 100 in fact) with higher murder rates than the US. Who ******* cares how those murders were carried out?
Most of those countries are third world ratholes, without central government or some kind of anarchy.
But if you compare us to other industrialized nations, most of which either limit gun ownership or ban it outright, we have a murder rate in the tens of thousands, and they have murder rates in the hundres.
Let's review, shall we?
G-7 Countries only, the countries that are our peers in economics, culture and advancement.
USA- 15,953 murders, 11,101 with guns.
United Kingdom- 653 murders, 38 with guns.
Italy - 552 Homicides, 218 with guns.
Germany - 662 homicides, 158 with guns.
France - 753 homicides, 134 with guns.
Canada - 529, homicides 173 with guns
Japan - 442 homicides, 11 with guns.