Lawmakers say Ohio shooting won't change nation's gun rights

[gejohnston]

81. actually that is part of the point

the same is true where most of the murders in the US are. That includes the US Virgin Islands which has a murder rate about the same as Jamaica. But it seems like there is a double standard. When it comes to countries with less poverty than the US (much of Europe for example) you claim its the guns even though gun ownership in many of those countries are about the same as the US (going by the polls claiming dropping gun ownership.) Is there a reason DC has a higher murder rate than a city of similar size in VA? Why is El Paso, TX, safer than not only Ciuidad Juarez but also Vancouver, BC?
Funny thing about US and Canadian murder rates. Our murder rates have been following the same cycle since 1920, looking like a perfect sine wave. Canadian murder rates pretty much does the same thing. 2011 had record gun sales in both countries.