derpinainreallife:

zer0space:

teachthecontroversy:

cundtcake:

U S A! U S A!

[*note: sarcasm]

Yes, and if you would actually report the whole thing, you would see that the US also does NOT have the highest homicides by guns (per the article, which you conveniently left that part out). Further, comparing number of homicides by guns to number of guns per person is just stupid. Of course a place that has more guns is going to have more deaths by guns on average. That is like saying its safer to swim in a land-locked nation than an island nation because there are more shark attacks in the island nation. The US isn’t anywhere near the top for homicide rate per capita in the world by country. Also according to www.guardian.co.uk, the highest homicides per 100,000 people is 61.1 with Colombia. The United States is ranked 97th out of reporting countries with a homicide rate of 5.9 per 100,000 people. If you want even more statistics, according to www.dailymail.co.uk, Britain (where gun ownership by citizens is HIGHLY regulated) has the highest violent crime rate out of ALL European countries and is also higher than the U.S. Personally, I would rather be shot to death than stabbed to death or hacked to pieces with a machete thank you very much.

Why don’t you stop being ignorant fuck-bags, surrounding yourselves with half-truths.

As some of the stuff zer0space has said here actually coincides with some information I have heard, but have never been able to verify, I decided to do a little research. The result was, to say the least, shocking.

According to an article posted in The Telegraph in July 2009, England had the highest violent crime rate in all of Europe, at 2000 violent crimes per 100,000 people. That made the violent crime rate in England over four times higher than that of the United States, which had a rate of 466 per 100,000.

There are also studies that show, while gun ownership does not necessarily decrease overall burglary rates, it does decrease the incidence rate of “hot burglary,” or burglary that happens while residents are home. At least one study has shown that the rate of hot burglary in Britain is roughly 45%, whereas in the United States it’s 13%. A survey of Pennsylvania inmates further suggested that one of the main reasons they did not perform hot burglaries was fear of retaliation from gun owners.

Interesting stuff, and worth further examination, I think.