(January 5, 2013 at 7:13 pm)Ethan1581 Wrote:(January 5, 2013 at 6:59 am)A Theist Wrote: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/07/2...343070564/
http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/japan
only 11 people were killed by firearms in Japan. Why? They have very strict laws on firearms.
2008: 11
2002: 47
2001: 56
1997: 34
1996: 36
1995: 42
http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/united-states
9,484 killed by firearms in 2008.
2009: 9,146
2008: 9,484
2007: 10,129
2006: 10,225
2005: 10,158
2004: 9,385
2003: 9,659
2002: 9,369
2001: 8,890
1999: 8,259
1998: 9,257
Well, what do you think now?
3 problems with this:
1. Based on The United Nation's Office of Drugs and Crime statistical analysis of murders by any method per 100,000 inhabitants, out of 230 countries, Japan ranks 118th in overall murder rates. America ranks 94. Statistically, Japan isn't even in the to 50% of nations where a person stands a reasonable chance of not being murdered so it is hardly a good example to use. The actual safest 15 countries are tiny, homogenous populations in the middle of the ocean somewhere that can contribute their high ranking to culture, and the need to live with each other without an outside support network.
2. That means that in those 93 countries that rank higher in overall murder rates, you stand a much higher chance of being stabbed, clubbed, or machete'd to death simply because the relatively painless method of shooting someone is just not very easy to pull off. Not allowing access to firearms simply encourages people to murder each other in more gruesome ways.
3. While ANY claim that if "X" did not exist then it could not be used may be accurate, it is also entirely meaningless if "X" actually exists.