2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: If You Break It, You Own It - Hillary's vote for the war is the defining issue for me [View all]pnwmom
(110,199 posts)People die in the US every day from gun violence, and the NRA and gun proponents help to prolong it.
But this isn't a competition. We shouldn't be killing people in wrongful wars or on our own streets or in classrooms.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2012/12/14/schoo-shooting-how-do-u-s-gun-homicides-compare-with-the-rest-of-the-world/
America sees far more gun violence than countries in Europe, and Canada, India and Australia, which is perhaps how it gets its bloody reputation among comparatively peaceful nations.
When a person kills another in the United States, though, he or she generally uses a gun: 60 percent of U.S. homicides occur using a firearm, which is the 26th-highest rate in the world. (In other gun-permeated countries, such as Finland (45.3 guns per 100 people), only about 19 percent of homicides involve a firearm.