There are 120 guns per 100 Americans – not just the highest in the world, but FAR higher than any other country in the world. #2 (The Falkland Islands) has 62, and #3 (Yemen, which is in a war right now) is only 53.
And why? Do we need them? The era of the citizen-soldier is long dead. And so are a lot of Americans – if we had even mild restrictions on guns, as the majority of Americans and NRA members want, we would reduce deaths considerably – not even just mass murders (to which no other country can begin to compare to us), but just suicides! Roughly 50,000 Americans die by their own hand and a gun. And unlike other methods, it is more often successful.
There are 120 guns per 100 Americans – not just the highest in the world, but FAR higher than any other country in the world. #2 (The Falkland Islands) has 62, and #3 (Yemen, which is in a war right now) is only 53.
And why? Do we need them? The era of the citizen-soldier is long dead. And so are a lot of Americans – if we had even mild restrictions on guns, as the majority of Americans and NRA members want, we would reduce deaths considerably – not even just mass murders (to which no other country can begin to compare to us), but just suicides! Roughly 50,000 Americans die by their own hand and a gun. And unlike other methods, it is more often successful.