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Wednesday, February 15th, 2023

How US gun culture stacks up with the world

Author:     Kara Fox, Krystina Shveda, Natalie Croker and Marco Chacon
Source:     CNN Wire Service / The Mercury News
Publication Date:     January 23, 2023 | 8:43 a.m.
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Stephan:  

This was written three weeks ago, so it misses several mass murders, Michigan, for instance. They happen so frequently now -- we have had 67 mass killings (4 people or more died) in the last 46 days -- that it is hard to keep them all straight. I spent part of the day watching CNN. MSNBC, and BBC interview school children who have experienced. not one but two mass shooting events. Think about that for a minute. And then think about Republicans who are going onto the floor of Congress wearing jewelry pins of AK-47s and AR-15s, the favorite weapon of mass murderers, as signed they advocate for reduced gun regulations. We are a very sick and increasingly violent country.  

America’s relationship to gun ownership is unique, and its gun culture is a global outlier. Credit: CNN

Monterey Park. Atlanta. Orlando. Las Vegas. Newtown. Parkland. San Bernardino. Uvalde.

Ubiquitous gun violence in the United States has left few places unscathed over the decades. Still, many Americans hold their right to bear arms, enshrined in the US Constitution, as sacrosanct. But critics of the Second Amendment say that right threatens another: The right to life.

America’s relationship to gun ownership is unique, and its gun culture is a global outlier.

As the tally of gun-related deaths continue to grow daily, here’s a look at how gun culture in the US compares to the rest of the world.

There are 120 guns for every 100 Americans, according to the Switzerland-based Small Arms Survey (SAS). No other nation has more civilian guns than people.

The Falkland Islands — a British territory in the southwest Atlantic Ocean, claimed by Argentina and the subject of a 1982 war — is home to the world’s second-largest stash of civilian guns […]

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1 Comment

  1. Albus on Thursday, February 16, 2023 at 3:56 am

    The three largest international commodities in terms of dollar value are: Oil, Drugs and weapons. The United States is most likely the largest dealer of weapons in the world, and has been for some time. We sell or trade Billions of dollars worth of weapons per year. It is part and parcel of the international empire. Why should it surprise us that weapons sales internally would be all that different from weapon sales externally?