On Sun, 18 Dec 2016 08:58:25 -0500, Keyser Soze
wrote:


The murder rate per 100,000 people is 3.9 in the United States and 1.4
in Canada. Thus, the rate in the United States is nearly three times the
rate in Canada. The murder rate in most modern "Western" countries is
far lower than it is in the United States. Compared to these other
countries, we are a really violent people.

It is certainly true that we are more violent. If you take away all of
the gun related murders (about 67%), we still have a comparable murder
rate to most of the western world. That assumes that the murderer
would not have killed at all if he did not have a gun. Unfortunately
we are resourceful. I doubt a lack of guns would bend the curve at
all. When they banned the "efficient" guns in Australia, it did not
really make a bump in the curve of the murder rate (that was already
going down before the gun grab)