Assault Weapons

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Buy1Sell2, Mar 23, 2021.

  1. Tony Stark

    Tony Stark

    Singularly useless info and analysis.
     
    #41     Mar 24, 2021
  2. I'm looking at the numbers. Murder won't be eliminated if all guns were confiscated. However, it would be greatly reduced.
     
    #42     Mar 24, 2021
  3. Tony Stark

    Tony Stark

    Not as black and white as you stated imo.(Not reffering to Destriero) There are some people who get a false courage and act differently when they have a gun.
     
    #43     Mar 24, 2021
  4. Buy1Sell2

    Buy1Sell2

    https://thefederalist.com/2018/04/03/gun-control-reduce-murder-lets-run-numbers-across-world/
    The murder capital of the world is El Salvador. El Salvador has done a relatively good job rounding up legal guns. There are only 5,800 guns per 100,000 residents (compared to over 101,000 in America), yet El Salvador’s ratio of guns to murders is a staggering 53. Every year, there’s a murder for every 53rd gun in El Salvador.

    The countries that have been most successful at limiting private, legal gun ownership are 1. Ethiopia, 2. Eritrea, 3. Haiti, 4. North Korea, and 5. Rwanda. Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Haiti all have higher murder rates than that of the United States. North Korea and Rwanda have slightly lower murder rates (4.4 and 4.5 per 100,000 respectively versus the United States at 4.88).
     
    #44     Mar 24, 2021
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  5. Tony Stark

    Tony Stark

    #45     Mar 24, 2021
  6. Buy1Sell2

    Buy1Sell2

    https://thefederalist.com/2018/04/03/gun-control-reduce-murder-lets-run-numbers-across-world/
    America is by far the country that owns the most guns per 100,000. In America, there are actually more guns than people. Our murder rate is much higher than that of our European counterparts. So far, the gun control hypothesis seems to be holding up.

    But guns in America are very unlikely to be involved in murders. Our ratio of guns to murders is 20,696 guns privately and legally owned for every murder.
     
    #46     Mar 24, 2021
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  7. You're comparing us to very poor countries with ineffective law enforcement/governments. How about Europe, Japan, Canada, Australia, etc?
     
    #47     Mar 24, 2021
  8. Buy1Sell2

    Buy1Sell2

    https://thefederalist.com/2018/04/03/gun-control-reduce-murder-lets-run-numbers-across-world/
    The data also exposes some myths I have heard about gun control. For example, I’ve heard activists tout Australia, which supposedly banned all guns. Australia has advanced a number of gun control measures over the years. Nevertheless, according to the data, Australia has a rate of private ownership of guns of 13,100 per 100,000 and a murder rate of .98.

    Australia has almost twice as many guns per capita as the United Kingdom, for example, and a comparable murder rate. New Zealand has almost twice as many guns per capita as Australia but a lower crime rate.
     
    #48     Mar 24, 2021
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  9. Buy1Sell2

    Buy1Sell2

    So you are in agreement then that it is not the guns, but the people that are the problem.
     
    #49     Mar 24, 2021
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  10. Buy1Sell2

    Buy1Sell2

    https://thefederalist.com/2018/04/03/gun-control-reduce-murder-lets-run-numbers-across-world/
    The ratio of murders per gun works as a decent measure for how responsible a country’s citizens are with their firearms. Measured in this light, an owner of a private legal gun in America measures as one of the most responsible in the world. A gun in America is 387 times less likely to be used in a murder than in El Salvador. Even in Japan, which has one of the lowest murder and gun ownership rates in the world, there are ten times as many murders per gun than in America.
     
    #50     Mar 24, 2021