Americans claim guns make for a safe society

[DudleySmith]

Why does more guns increase gun deaths per capita?

It doesn't. According to your dumb 'logic', we should all be dead if it was the numbers of guns that mattered. duh.

 

[marvin martian]

UK - In 2021 Gun homicides was 35

USA - In 2021 Gun homicides was 21,000

In the UK, 0.08 per 100,000 are killed by knives

In the USA, 0.6 per 100,000 are killed by knives

So clearly guns have the opposite effect.

Safe from abuse by a tyrannical government. As you can see from living in the UK, you're not safe from that.

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

What do you find as false? Guns to guns, or knives to knives, or guns to knives?

Never bring a knife to a gunfight....

 

[Captain Caveman]

It doesn't. According to your dumb 'logic', we should all be dead if it was the numbers of guns that mattered. duh.

You're proving that Americans are brain dead on gun safety and gun stats.

 

[Captain Caveman]

Safe from abuse by a tyrannical government. As you can see from living in the UK, you're not safe from that.

There are 195 countries with a total population of 8 billion

There are 17 countries that ban guns with a total population of 138,734,651

8.7% of countries with 1.73% of the world's population banned guns

There are 5 countries that are classed to have tyrannical governments, only 2 have banned guns

Countries Where Guns Are Illegal 2024

worldpopulationreview.com

Please stick to reality and please stick to the thread title.

 

[Captain Caveman]

Strange, more guns means greater safety? What's going wrong with that fallacy

 

[Stryder50]

Homicide rate from firearms, 2021​

Homicide rate from firearms, measured as the number of deaths per 100,000 people.

Homicide rate from firearms

Homicide rate from firearms, measured as the number of deaths per 100,000 people.

ourworldindata.org

The USA doesn't lead the world. Some of those that exceed the USA don't have high rate of legal gun ownership, some have greater restriction on gun ownership.

 

[Stryder50]

Even more significant is homicide/murder rates per capita. Guns not required to have higher rates.

List of countries by intentional death rate - Wikipedia​

Countries ranked by Intentional homicides (per 100,000 people) - Index​

Murder Rate by Country 2024 - World Population Review​

List of countries by intentional homicide rate - Wikipedia​

Countries ranked by Intentional homicides (per 100,000 people) - Index​

Interesting how these vary. One showed the USA about #45, another shows about #64

 

[Captain Caveman]

The UK has 1,200 violent crimes per 100,000 population, the U.S. 380. He's full of shit, is all.

Gun deaths are deaths, you can compare countries on deaths. With crime that does not involve death, does any country have exactly the same laws, the same definitions, the same reporting procedures etc.. Even between European member states, laws and definitions differ. Some countries class certain acts as crime, other consider it as a civil matters. So for example in the UK, the police won't turn up to someone trespassing because it's a civil matter, not a criminal matter, some other countries will log it as a crime.

You can breakdown populations to per capita, per 100,000 people to compare gun deaths. In the case of America it's too many unsuitables with guns, and a dreadful gun mentality.

 

[Stryder50]

Why does more guns increase gun deaths per capita?

Basic math dumbnuts.
More cars increase more deaths per capita caused by cars.
Crawl back into your cave, where you will be safe.