Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Gun in hand, 68 year old woman saves boyfriend in attack [View all]VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)so its the old...But babies die everyday defense????
pathetic....and sickening.
Other countries have done exactly that. Australia enacted a mandatory gun buyback that achieved that goal, and saw firearm suicides fall as a result. But the reforms those countries enacted are far more dramatic than anything US politicians are calling for and even they wouldn't get us to where many other developed countries are.
Think about it this way. In 2013, the US had 106.4 gun deaths per million people. In 2011, the last year for which we have numbers, the UK endured 146 gun deaths total or 2.3 gun deaths per million people.
To get to UK levels, we'd need to reduce gun deaths by nearly 98 percent. Even if we wanted to reach the same levels as Finland another developed country with a relatively high rate of gun deaths we'd need to drop from 106.4 deaths per million to 35 more than a 67 percent reduction.
http://www.vox.com/2015/10/5/9454161/gun-violence-solution
Now run along and go find an NRA funded source to tell you otherwise....so you can sleep at night.
meanwhile my cousin...STILL dead!