In general, the places where there are lots of guns are quiet and peaceful. The murder rate in the U.K., where guns are rare, is about 1 per 100,000 inhabitants. The murder rate in New Hampshire, where 30% of residents own guns, is also 1 per 100,000 inhabitants. In Vermont the numbers are 42% and 1.1; in Idaho the numbers are 51% and 1.3; in Wyoming a whopping 60% of residents own guns and the murder rate is 1.4.
In the District of Columbia, fewer than 4% of residents own guns and the murder rate is 22 per 100,000.
It is the places where there are few guns, and almost no legal ones, that are the most dangerous.
The U.S. has more knife and fist murders than most of the nations of Western Europe have murders of all kinds. 105 nations have higher murder rates than the U.S.; all those 105 nations have fewer guns per capita than the U.S.
What’s it like living in Brazil: 6 times the murder rate and 1/16th as many guns per capita? (Did you go to the Olympics?)
Guns aren’t what make a place dangerous
Read other answers by Gregory Norton on Quora:
- People always say that the US has gun ownership in its constitution so that it can challenge the current government/establishment. Is there a reasonable way that this could ever be achieved? I live in the UK and find gun ownership unfathomable but it would be interesting to hear any theories.
- In the United States, how does death from ways other than gun violence somehow negate the horror of gun violence?
- Why isn't hollow point ammunition banned in the US?
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