Name:   architect - Subject:   Buteye Date:   2/18/2018 9:29:50 AM

Sorry l cannot find that study but will post if l do.

The NRA and their backers claim that more guns make us safer.  If so how is it that we have the world's highest murder rate while also having by far the highest per capita gun ownership?  A simple question that still has not been realistically answered by anyone on this froum!

There is a related study done by the National Institutes of Health in 2003 comparing the US with the average of the other 23 most economically advanced nations (this was of course before the congress passed legislation specifically forbidding NIH and CDC from even studying gun deaths).

1/   Gun sales are 19.5 times higher

2/   Gun homicide rates are 22 times higher for men

3/   Gun homicide rates are 11.4 times higher for women

4/   Gun homicide rates are 42.7 times higher for those 15 to 24 years old

5    Gun suicide rates are 5.8 times higher

6/   Gun related accidental deaths are 5.2 times higher

You may not like the statistical facts but that does not make them any less true and we are foolish to continue to brush them aside!