Originally Posted by US Herk
A whole bunch of red herrings which don't actually address the point, which is...
More people per capita in the US die from gun injury than in any other developed nation.
Violent crime is not death by guns, so please don't try to equate the two. First, there is the matter of what gets recorded as "violent crime", which differs enormously by nation. Then, while you are more likely to be involved in a violent incident in the UK than in the US, that same violent incident is
15 times more likely to end in the death of one of those involved. So yeah, there may be more "violent crime" in the UK, but the level of violence is far, far greater in the US.
I can dig up the reports on those numbers if you want.