In 2011 there were 8,775 gun rleated murders in the US. There are 311 million people. (0.0028%
Please quote your source for these numbers, as I believe they are contrived and made up to forward anti-gun sentiment.
The FBI's latest publication of compiled data is for 2010. You got 2011 data from where?
Further, have the statistics you posted previously, been collected on the same basis/criteria as the ones you posted for other places?
Different organizations/countries collect and categorize with different placements/weighting.
Do your numbers include police homicides, justifiable homicide, and suicides by firearm as so many anti-gun agenda statistics do?
Have you considered and cost/benefit factors in your assessment? Ie, if you only look at auto related deaths per population, do you also conclude that autos should be banned? What about chain saw injuries, swimming pool injuries/deaths? Should any tool or man made device that has the possibility for injuring/killing, be banned from human access? The Golden Gate bridge has been the scene of over 1200 deaths. Should the Bridge be dismantled to prevent any more deaths? If it saves one life, it's worth it, right?
Have you EVER considered how many people have been saved by the use of, or even the mere presence/display of a firearm in an otherwise dangerous or life threatening situation? Will they drop the club or knife when they realize you are armed?
Are you of the opinion that firearms are evil and therefore no one should ever have them, including the police and military (who, of course, never abuse their power and never make a human mistake with such a powerful tool)?
If you were really worried about death rates (as opposed to an anti-gun agenda), you would move to the United Arab Emirates, which has a 3 times lower death rate than Australia.
http://www.indexmundi.com/g/r.aspx?c=as&v=26I find it difficult to believe the answer to reducing the number of gun related deaths is to increase (and conceal!) the number of guns available.
And yet, in US areas where guns are more easily accessible, the crime rates including murder are the lowest, including concealed carry locations. Whereas, the places with the most restrictive and draconian gun laws in US have the highest crime rates.
There are about 80 million gun owners in America with a combining total of 258 million guns. (These are estimates)
If guns are evil or cause evil, how do you explain the silence and non-violence of these millions of gun owners in the US?
How do you explain the recent increase in firearm sales while the crime rate has decreased during that same period?
If you care, I can publish sources for all these statements. But, they are very easy to find with any sort of objective searching of the internet.
It's tragic when someone goes off kilter with firearms. But, a few Molotov cocktails tossed into the theater would have been just as tragic. And I don't hear you lobbying to ban bottles and gasoline from public access. Our society has many tools with which to maim. In many regards, guns are far less worrisome.
In fact, given the widespread availability of alternate tools, chemicals, and other implements that can injure and kill, I always get suspicious when these national events occur involving firearms. It seems they are staged sometimes, in order to promote an anti-gun agenda. I question how much fear-mongering is being practiced by media and organizations that wish to promote more restrictive gun control on the wide-eyed masses.
But, it is always "possible" for any individual to exercise their "free will" and rage against society. That is the very risk of a free society.
