Another gun discussion part deux.

[Rev. Rye]

Which is why I used actual statistics and not news sources. Because news stories tend to not put individual stories into perspective to show how common gun deaths are per capita or how those rates tally against the rest of the world. And for America, we don’t do very well by any objective sense of the word. Unless, of course, one of your metrics for doing well involves “how fast do these people kill themselves or each other?”

but again stats like this never look at the big picture all suicide all murder. they only look at murder or suicide with gun. verse suicide with gun in some other country. i'm saying the ratios are similar with similar cultures money or access to fire arms being the only difference.

Actually, the table I linked to does include firearm-related suicide per capita. It breaks the total firearm-related death rates of multiple countries down into homicide, suicide, unintentional, and unconfirmed. It turns out that, of all the firearm-related death categories, Suicide is the only one that the US truly tops. Of all the nations in the table, the only nations that have even half our gun-related suicide rate are Uruguay and Montenegro.