American Republican Jesus

[EricHiggin]

Hiku said:

EricHiggin said:

"If a man strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him and shoot him. That is the law". Sounded like gun violence to me.

Are the standards for murder and school shootings the exact same across all Countries? So stop the innocent, peaceful, civil people from doing what they want to do, so the guilty, disruptive, uncivil criminals can do what they want to? If the US has 288X the amount of guns, or close to that, than Japan does, then you may have a point. Otherwise not, which is my assumption. I'd guess you'd be a lot closer if you said America has 288X the amount of BS coming out of their media.

No reply to racist GOP Jesus? Where did GOP Jesus talk about comics and super hero's? 

I see the reference you're referring to in the video now, thanks.

I'm not sure I follow what you're trying to say about the difference in guns in circulation in the country. Are you suggesting USA has more than 288x times the guns Japan does? Or less? And what would that mean? My point was that there is a correlation between more guns = more gun violence. And there's a lot of statistics we can look at regarding that.
But regarding Japan, their gun ratio (guns per person) is 0.003.
USA's is 1,205. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_guns_per_capita_by_country

Meaning they have more guns than they have people. And that USA's number is 401X higher than Japan's.
You'll have to tell me what you make of that.

But from your reply to collint0101, I guess you are of the mindset that there must be some equivalent to the ~40 000 who in USA unnecessarily die every year from not being able to afford healthcare, in other developed countries?
I'm not sure how to track your suggestion about victims of murders where a deadly weapon was used other than homicide rates. Perhaps amount of people living in poverty, or homeless people? If you have any other ideas then feel free to share.

Your welcome.

The note beside America, which can be taken a couple different ways, says either 300 million guns, or 600 million, so not 1,205 per person, but 1 or almost 2 per person.

First it's estimated. Secondly that 401X, which I'm having trouble matching, has to be divided by 3 due to the population difference, so it would only be 133%.

I don't know either, I just posed the question, with the point that you can't only blame a lack of healthcare on those deaths, and that there are many ways in which people can die, so worrying about the largest contributors would seem like a good place to start.