| HappySqurriel said: I would personally argue that the main reason there is so much gun violence in the United States is the distribution of wealth in the United States is one of the least equal in the world; it is similar to countries like Brazil, China and other countries where the wealthy need bodyguards to prevent them from being killed for the money they carry around with them. On top of this, the war on drugs has created an industry where the most violent person and dangerous people are rewarded ... |
That's a perfectly reasonable argument for America's relatively high crime rate, but we can't just group crime and gun violence together. Gun violence is a type of crime, but it's not all crime, and most gun related deaths (as shown above) are simply idiots killing themselves and their families on accident. Again, there is signifficant evidence that the ability to posess firearms raises homicide and suicide rates signifficantly.
