Other data. Of the remaining minority percent of gun related homicides, it is estimated that 55% or more of that is gang violence. Other notes, the chart below is total assaults. Rex likes Australia and facts, he is more likely to be assaulted there than in the US. Though Canada is nice.
Hate to say this to detract from the thread but the different perspectives are well presented with a surprisingly small amount of name calling. Well done Carry on
Looks like all of the Eurozone is ahead of the USA. I can't imagine why. Mass immigration perhaps? No cultural assimilation of immigrants maybe?
Are owning guns as addictive as drugs? I guess the saying goes drugs don't kill people, people kill people. Every drug OD is a suicide then. Unless of course, someone is dropping heroine filled balloons from up above.
Las Vegas killer's girlfriend says she had no warning of violence he planned http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_55cbb86e-a961-11e7-b356-6fad4d0e13ab.html
Food for thought. http://reason.com/blog/2017/10/04/a-statistician-reconsiders-her-support-f?utm_medium=email A gun control advocate changed her position after looking at the facts and not emotionally.
This whole incident is very odd. This guy was wealthy, he had no mental illness history, no relationship problems, no financial problems, and he is dead when the police get there so no one actually saw him shooting.
Americans do love their guns and gun violence that's for sure. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/06/...ath-rates-the-us-is-in-a-different-world.html