Arm Yourself: The Ultimate Gun Factsheet

[Kasz216]

Player2 said:

Kasz216 said:

Barozi said:
The US is CLEARLY a third world country regarding gun controls.

Short memo to you. The 18th century is over.

Actually third world countries tend to have the most gun control and least gun ownership.  Outside of countries like Somalia anyway.   It's why gun control people are stuck between using local data (which skews against them) and worldwide data (the same) and instead go with a collection of rich countries... but only certain rich countries.

Worldwide data looks something like this...

 

Honestly i'm surprised Serbia's murder rate is so low.

I doubt that third world countries have enough resources and are non-corrupt enough to enforce their gun control laws efficiently.

Does that data include ilegally owned weapons? And what about weapons owned by drug cartels and other organizations? I doubt that you can phone the FARC and they'll tell you how many guns they have.

And I could argue about the population pyramid differencies between third world countries and first world countries does have an effect here.

Sure they do... gun control is one of the few things you can count on.  Since it what maintains power.  You don't want to let guns be around, because well... as a corrupt official you don't want to be shot by guns.

 

As for the data, it's based on estimates... as for the graph, it's completely meaningless because of culture differences.  It's just worth noting the trend to mention just how much the data is massaged to get the "right" results... as the data goes against the presense in a "control for nothing" or "control for as much as possible."