Ireland has one of the most restrictive gun regimes in the world, a fact I can personally attest to (no, I don't own a gun, but as part of my job I've been involved in processing a fair few applications). It's gun death ratio (2012 figures, due to a feud between Dublin based criminal gangs that rate is a bit higher but not by that much) is 0.8 deaths per 100,000 people.
The US gun death rate in 2014, by contrast was 10.54 per 100,000. Outside of failed states and states with tiny populations (e.g. two gun deaths per year in Iceland will massively raise the rates).
Nobody can say that the fact that it's way harder to get a gun here is the main reason why there is such a lower ratio of people being killed by guns in Ireland than in the US. Not without showing themselves up as massive liars anyway.
The US gun death rate in 2014, by contrast was 10.54 per 100,000. Outside of failed states and states with tiny populations (e.g. two gun deaths per year in Iceland will massively raise the rates).
Nobody can say that the fact that it's way harder to get a gun here is the main reason why there is such a lower ratio of people being killed by guns in Ireland than in the US. Not without showing themselves up as massive liars anyway.
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