Re: here we go again
Overall homicide rates are a different thing to total gun deaths and suicide by gun deaths.
so we have 800 homicides in the UK per year, the USA has for GUN crimes alone (2017) 23,854 were by suicide and 14,542 were homicides.
UK Homicides per 100,000 - 1.20 total = 803 (2017)
USA Homcides per 100,000 5.30 total 17,284 (2017)
However you slice it the USA is a lot less safe as a place to visit or live than the UK.
Note: I have been to the USA only once (Mainly N.Y.) and ALL the people were freindly and I will be visiting again. It is just the American obsession, because that is what it is, an obsession, with owning guns and sometime LOTS of guns that is unsettling. I have no idea how many people have been "saved" by owning a firearm in the USA but i am sure a lot more have died because of one.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
