Gun control debate issues that bother me. Will Libertarians and Republicans please address these?

[mrstickball]

Lafiel said:

ishiki said:

However, i'm not sure if these sites are correct. But, the U.S. is 10 in the world of gun violent deaths per capita. However not in the top 37 in homocide per capita. This obviously supports that people are the problem not the guns. However there's no way to prove whether or not banning guns would decrease homocide rate even further. Letting the government take away freedoms is a slippery slope. Also the money could be spent = on something more worthwhile, or not spent, but the government likes spending money.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_percap-crime-murders-per-capita

lol? according to the first table the USA has 3.6 gun related homicides per 100k people, which is equal to 36 per 1million people

that alone would mean they are at #11 in the second list

Nationmaster is a VERY partial list.

Wikipedia has a much more robust list (which should have been used instead of Nationmaster, really): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate

 

You have to scroll down to about the bottom half to find the US.