Michael-5 said:
What about other countries? Canada's gun ownership rate is much lower then USA.
Yup, Canada, much lower homicide rate
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The USA has 88 guns per 100 people, Canada has 31 per 100 people. By your reasoning the murder rate by gun should be the same ratio.
Now this is where it falls apart. In the USA per 100,000 people 3.6 are murdered by gun per year, in Canada per 100,000 people 0.5 are murdered by gun per year.
Remember we're not including suicide by gun, something people always lump in.
If we were to multiply 31 (number of guns per 100 in Canada)x 2.85 = approx 88 (Number of guns per 100 in USA), then multiply 0.5 (number of Canadian murders by gun per year) x 2.85 (number of times more guns USA has per capita then Canada) = 1.425
1.425?! But then why are Americans killing each other with guns at a rate of 3.6 per 100,000, more then double the hypothetical rate of Canadians if Canadians had the same number of guns?
Maybe it's something to do with the American culture and not just the guns.