“We need to be very clear, you are not going to get gun deaths to zero,” he said. “It will not happen. You can significantly reduce them, by having more fathers in the home, by having more armed guards in front of schools. We should have a honest and clear reductionist view of gun violence, but we should not have a utopian one.”
Ah yes, “the utopian one” like it is in the rest of the Western world.
Plenty of Western countries with lots of guns that don’t have the same issues with gun violence.
Not nearly as many guns. No other country even has half as many guns per person as the US. But, even the ones that have a few guns (plus the ones that have almost no guns) have strictly enforced gun control laws, and treat gun ownership as a privilege not a right.
Almost, if I can believe this Wikipedia article Falkland Islands has just over half as much as the US.
I can imagine why that might be. But, the Falkland Islands aren’t a country. I would guess that if you go province by province, state by state, territory by territory, you can probably find others with very high gun ownership rates.
I would guess that if you go province by province, state by state, territory by territory, you can probably find others with very high gun ownership rates.
Well, yes, the Falkland Islands.
Out of the completely sovereign countries, Yemen would be second place, though the US more-than-doubles their gun ownership per 100 civilians indeed.
Now, Falkland Islands and Yemen also have far, far fewer guns than the US; their high gun ownership comes in part from their small population.
India and China rank second and third in total guns owned by civilians, but purely through their sheer population. Gun ownership per 100 civilians ranks low in China (3.6%) and so-so in India (5.3%).Don’t get me wrong, the fact that the US only barely doesn’t double some tiny territory’s gun ownership by population, still speaks volumes for the US’s insane level of gun ownership!
I wonder about things like Canada’s Nunavut, the North West Territories, Finnmark in Norway, etc.
Those are places where I wouldn’t be surprised if every rural household had a gun, either for hunting or for protection from bears. But, they’re also relatively poor, so there probably aren’t a lot of houses with multiple guns. But, it’s possible that there’s one with Falkland Islands levels of gun ownership, maybe even US gun ownership per person, just with far fewer people.
Spicy. This reminds me of reddit before it got corporatized
Welcome! I use arch btw.
Stop opressing mint users!
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This actually happens?
Nah I’m just kidding.
As a Mint user, you got me worried about the community I’m in (^^;
