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All developed countries have traffic deaths they are a sad constant of modern life. Gun deaths are not. Why is this extra lethal firearms factor almost absent in other such countries ? There is also the difference between accident and intent too. Firearms deaths are more often than not intentional and not accidental like auto crashes
Because America choose to be an armed society where that power was not monopolized by government.
Just as our society and yours has chosen, has decided, that several thousand children a year will be crushed to a dead pulp in traffic accidents so that the rest of us may have the liberty of zipping down the highway at 70 mph, our society has chosen to tolerate a far smaller number of accidental deaths so that we have the liberty to be armed. Just as we choose not to save several lives a year reducing the pts-per-billion of arsenic in the drinking water, because it would be too expensive.
Don't like it, don't live here.