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Ozmose posted...

You do overseas.

No, you really don't.

Ozmose posted...

We're not even close to the worst in terms of gun homicide. Based on population, I believe we rank something like 36th globally.

21st, actually, and even that is misleading because it counts Puerto Rico and the American Virgin Islands as not being part of the US (both have higher gun crime rates than the 50 states) and counts them as "countries", for some reason, so the US is actually 19th. And every single other country with a higher gun crime rate is impoverished, has massive problems with corruption and organized crime, or both.

Amongst developed nations, the US is far and away the worst in gun crime and in homicides in general. It has an intentional homicide rate of 6.5 per 100,000 as of 2020, putting it just ahead of such security heavyweights as Haiti and Tanzania, but not quite reaching the lofty heights of Zambia or Burundi. For reference, the next most murdery developed country on the list is Latvia and New Zealand, both of which have less than half the murder rate at 2.6 per 100,000. Continuing down the list, we have Canada at 2.0, Finland at 1.6, Iceland at 1.5, France at 1.3, Sweden at 1.2, the UK at 1.1, Denmark at 1.0, Australia at 0.9, Taiwan at 0.8, Ireland, Austria, and Poland all with 0.7, Norway, the Netherlands, South Korea, and Spain at 0.6, Italy, Slovenia, and Switzerland at 0.5, Japan at 0.3, and Luxembourg at 0.2. And, though I shouldn't need to point this out, I will mention that mentally ill people exist in every single one of those countries.

It's the guns. It's always been the guns. It will continue to be the guns for as long as the US refuses to acknowledge the actual problem here.