I did the work to prove my statement.
You did not dispute my data / stats / facts that prove you wrong; you just want to include other facts that have no bearing on the veracity of "more guns = more gun deaths" pertaining to the USA.
I have no problem saying that there are nations with strict gun control -- that have never had wide gun ownership rates -- which have lower rates of gun death than the USA. Including them in the discussion is nonsensical because the gun ownership of their citizens is neither increasing or decreasing; it is permanently repressed at a low level.
How does their experience inform us on the USA? Their gun control has been in force for decades if not a century or more and was initially enacted for political reasons, not in a response to criminality or out of any concern for the death rates of the population (just the various dictators / rulers / monarchs).
If you want to discuss a nation that enacted strict gun control in response to criminality, in concern for citizen well-being, let's look at Jamaica.
Sailor (06-25-2017)
Sure, why not? It is a gun control Utopia . . an island where the police and judicial system have unfettered power to effect the disarmament of the population.
It has everything gun controllers want and is everything gun rights supporters warn about. The citizens are rendered incapable of protecting themselves from the criminals who easily evade regulatory proscriptions on an item that gives them absolute superiority over their victims. The criminals become untouchable and the citizens are terrorized by those who should be protecting them.
Neither the mechanism or action of gun control in other nations is applicable to the United States. I will not disagree with the argument that subjugated, compliant subjects who have been conditioned for generations to being disarmed do not frequently shoot themselves or others. I will disagree that such political action can be implemented here. The beneficial effects you tout of political disarmament can not be reverse engineered here even if it is sold as being directed at criminal misuse . . . Disarmament of the citizenry is always a political endeavor, and in this nation such a move will never be permitted (allowing for a moment the utter fantasy that it is possible / feasible).
Just to remind you , MORE GUNS = FEWER GUN DEATHS
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