Mr Khan said:
Ukraine has plenty of guns, though. Legally or illegally (not sure what their laws are, but a fair few have commented on Ukraine's relatively high gun ownership rate). Crimea i'd argue is more a case in point on my side: if they had tried to shoot back at the Russians, it would have given them excuse to kill or arrest anyone who looked at them funny. |
You'd think so... but actually they have a very small amount of guns.
The Ukraine has about 3 Million private guns (Both Legal and illegal) for a population of 45 Million which is an ownership rate of about 6.6%.
In Comparison, France has over 30 guns per 100.
Greece 22,
Belgium 17.
Hell Russia is sitting at nearly 9%
Though we like to think of the USSR as having just surplus AK47's floating around everwhere after the collapse, the USSR ad it's successor states had some of the strictiest gun controls ever.
Compare that to the rest of the world and....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_country
