"Jeff Morris" wrote in message

And yet, your homicide rate is a small fraction of the rate in the US. Its
even lower than in Massachusetts. How do you explain that?

Easy. When you subtract the gang and drug-related murders, the US rates are
comparable with most other countries of similar population density. Gang
and drug murders are urban and cultural problems, which don't affect the
mainstream of US life. Less than 2% of the population has a murder rate
more than 1000x that of the other 98%. The fact that city, county, state,
and the federal government have chosen to do nothing about gangs and drugs
is the issue, not guns.

Of course the anti-gun extremists won't consider removing that population
demographic to make fair and accurate comparisons. Instead they refer to
the gang/drug killings as a bunch of "scare little kids" getting killed by
nasty guns.

Max