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Originally Posted by rwm1273
Without getting too far into your numbers, you fail to show the per capita amount of guns to people.
Next you have picked a couple countires that almost have no pistols.
And you you point out that many of the guns used in homicide are illegal.
You should do some research on Switzerland and their gun laws. It has the most guns per citizen rate in the world if I am not mistaken, and they have one of the lowest home invasion rates, and murder rates are also equally low.
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The Vulcan in me would interpret Switzerlands numbers and tie them to their excellent education system and high standard of living; which reduce the social woes that foster high murder rates. This tied to statistically high firearm ownership. England and Austrailia both have already had Orwellian seizure and destruction of a significant amount of their citizens firearms, severely reducing firearm availability to both good citizens and criminals alike. What you can't even find, you certainly can't kill with (necessitating other modes of homicide). Now we need to see all their homicide and suicide statistics regardless of the methods & weapons used.
If tied to other statistics such as GDP, literacy rates, firearm per citizen ratio's, employment rates, and probably a host of others comparisons could be better made. Another fly in that ointment would be how many guns are actually in citizens hands versus what each national politbureau has reported in their records. For all of their similarities, the best comparisons would be the US states closest to our own border with comparable population densities; both socially and geographically it's the closest match available.