beer dragon, 2 posts: I was curious so I looked up the CDC report on homicides, percentage of homicides by firearms, also by population. To my surprise, we were 28th position in the world yet we have 50% of the world's civilian gun ownership within only 5% of the world's population.
USA was '28th' in the world in firearm homicides, & you are what? pleasantly surprised? your entire post is ambiguous & I get mixed signals. If the USA is 28th in the world, out of approx. 180 countries in the world, including 3rd worlders, 28th is in the top 15% about.
beer dragon: I also checked out in the US, which town/cities had the highest firearm per capita, they also had the lowest violent crime rate.
.. that's a misleading lie. You can't compare rural states & cities with urban areas. There are essentially NO rural areas with low population density in America, with stricter gun control. So post your link, your source to what you contend so we can view it in context, not as propaGUNda.
Observe beer dragon, the states with the highest violent crime rates:
Highest Crime Per Capita, 2012 http://blogs.findlaw.com/blotter/2013/09/10-states-with-the-highest-rates-of-violent-crime.html
1.Wash D.C.: 1,243.7 violent crimes/100k (discard since DC is a city)
2.Tennessee: 643.6 PRO GUN
3.Nevada: 607.6 PRO GUN
4.Alaska: 603.2 VERY PRO GUN
5.New Mexico: 559.1 Leans GUN
6.South Carolina: 558.8 very PRO GUN
7.Delaware: 547.4 neutralish
8.Louisiana: 496.9 PRO GUN
9.Florida: 487.1 Leans Gun
10.Maryland: 476.8 Gun control
11. California GC (423.1), Texas PRO GUN (408.6), New York GC (406.8)
Lowest Crime Per Capita 1.Maine: 122.7 2.Vermont: 142.6 3.New Hampshire: 187.9 4.Virginia: 190.1 5.Wyoming: 201.4 6.Utah: 205.8 7.Idaho: 207.9 8.Kentucky: 222.6
9.Minnesota: 230.9 (neutralish?) 10.Hawaii (Gun control): 239.2 Mostly rural pro gun states with low populations, except va & ky & mn.
beer dragon: So it actually made me think that maybe it did do something for safety. Sorta like Robert Heinlein's quote in the book Starship Troopers. "An armed society is a polite society".....
If that were so we'd be the safest country in the world, safer than Japan, but we're not.
beer dragon: Gee thanks, now you've started me down a rabbit hole
You're not fooling too many people here, 2 post beer dragon. Sound like a reincarnation of a GN to me -- suddenly picking out GCRA to start your DU voyage? Riiiiiiight.
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