^ this is interesting, ordered by deaths per 100,000, the US is 11th in the table (of about ~70 countries)
You address the point in your next post, which is that they are much lower down the table when you just look at homicides.
But you make some interesting points. Actually I think your comment that the problem in other countries is more down to political unrest or social problems is precisely why the US has the problem it does and the only reason it’s not a bigger problem there is because they are still a developed nation, so they are able to spend a lot more on things like education and law enforcement (though that’s a some what sensitive subject right now).
The contrast that I think is truly fascinating and offers genuine insight is to compare the rate of gun ownership across the world against the rate of gun homicide and see what correlations there are.
The argument is that the homicide rate is so high because there are so many guns. But if that is true, then how do you explain Switzerland, serbia, Cyprus and, interestingly, France, all of which have relatively high rates of gun ownership but don’t figure anywhere near the top 20 in terms of gun homicides. OK so the rate of gun ownership is proportionally a lot less in those countries than in the US, but a lot of that will be to do with double counting – i.e. if a person owns a gun in the US, chances are they own two or three and that really won’t make a difference to the gun homicide rate.
