Does the United States have some kind of gun death epidemic? Let's look at gun deaths around the world comparing them to the United States. The answer found below is that the United States does not have an epidemic of gun related deaths, despite what liberal progressives would have people believe.
Figures from the United Nations show the US sitting fifth in the world in terms of people murdered by a firearm, with 9,960 such homicides in 2010.
But in part this is because of its large population: the US falls to 26th, behind many Latin American and Caribbean countries, when the figure is expressed as a rate per 100,000 people...
But in part this is because of its large population: the US falls to 26th, behind many Latin American and Caribbean countries, when the figure is expressed as a rate per 100,000 people...
An interesting note. Russia has five times as many murders as the United States and yet has fewer murders by guns. Obviously strict gun controls in Russia have not reduced murders at all. This should be an object lesson for the United States. People bent on murdering people will find other ways to murder people outside of any gun controls in place.
Unfortunately, this will fall on the deaf ears of liberal progressives as it does not fit their ideological goal to disarm Americans.
Liberal progressives have fought tooth and nail to deny that the 2nd Amendment applies to private citizens. Their latest emotionally charged call for stricter gun controls is obvious and cravenly deceitful as to be obscene. Liberals like Senators Durbin (D-IL) and Feinstein (D-CA) attest to this rush to judgment to punish law abiding gun owners all in the name of the children.
They have used the emotionally charged Newtown, CT, mass murders as their Trojan Horse to undermine the 2nd Amendment. They should be ashamed of themselves, but they aren't and never will be.
Read the entire source article at BBC NEWS
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