Economic inequality biggest reason for violence. Not gun laws.

[zumnupy10]

Mr Khan said:

zumnupy10 said:
Sweeden and Finland in this chart prove how difficult is to reach a conclusion if income inequality really means higher violence rates.

Different countries and societies have different reasons for violence to increase or fall. There is no absolute truth about this matter.

The key is that it has a lot to do with homogeneity. Societies that have a lot of "otherness" whether this is economic, religious, or ethnic, are going to have more violence than countries that don't. Japan, for instance, has rock-bottom gun ownership rates and rock-bottom crime rates, due to a perceived larger degree of homogeneity (although the Japanese like to believe that they're more homogenous than they actually are, but that belief plays a positive rule in minimizing internal strife).

Totally agree with this theory. Diversity plays a big role in every merit or problem of a society, including violence.

And it's the reason I say that most comparisons between countries make no sense. They don't take in consideration factors like migration and multi-cultural societies. Numbers are cold.