Is that the best you can do? The mother of all spurious sites?
e.g, "Over the last 70 years, Europe has averaged about 400,000 murders per year, when one includes the murders committed by governments against mostly unarmed people"
Do what? What kind of bizarro counter is this - if you don't have a handgun the local government's going to come and kill you??
Oh, right, see the footnote:
The number of people killed by their own government in Europe averages about 400,000 for the last 70 years. This includes Hitler's extermination of Jews, gypsies and other peoples (20,946,000); Stalin's genocide against the Ukrainian kulaks (6,500,000); and more. R.J. Rummel, Death by Government (2000), pp. 8 and 80.
Leaving aside that neither USSR nor Nazi Germany had gun-control laws... er... so you in the US need guns to, er, protect against your own government coming to wipe you out? Can you spell "paranoid delusional"?
Sorry, this site is too blatantly idiotic to be worth further argument.
Anyway, that's not my point. Gun related deaths in the US run at 400x the rate in the UK. This, "Fact: Many nations with stricter gun control laws have violence rates that are equal to, or greater than, that of the United States." is irrelevant - I'm talking about gun-related deaths and nothing even in this incredible site argues otherwise.
If you can see two culturally similar societies where one has 400x the non-natural death rate of the other caused by weapons allowed in the high-death country and illegal in the other...
Don't you think "Hmm, maybe something significant here"? |
