only took the first page…
Legal guns also equals greater risk of successful suicide and accidental deaths.
USA at 10.3 and UK at 0.25 – – 40 times more likely
Not sure that’s got anything to do with my point that, in a self defence context, as was being discussed in the linked article, the UKs situation with Guns and that in the US are not a like for like comparison.
Don’t get me wrong, I am quite happy I live in a country where the gun controls are as strict as they are. If, however, I lived in the US I would have to make a very difficult decision on whether I ought to own one to defend myself and my family given the prevalence of guns in many crimes. On balance I probably wouldn’t but I would have to have a long hard think about it as it wouldn’t be a cut and dry decision.
BTW Your point about accidental shootings is, for me, one of the strongest arguments for not owning a gun.