Sure.. because it has more guns...
The USA has too many gun deaths and wounds...because it has so many guns.
The gun control lobby's argument in a nutshell
...countries can both be very very safe...and still have firearms... like the US does. More firearms does not translate into being less safe.
More firearms = more gun deaths and injuries.
10,000 gun related homicides and 70,000+ injuries per year doesn't sound like the USA is as safe a place as you pretend it is
...its a problem.. just not with guns....
How else would you deal with the problem ?
How would you stop violent or stupid people being violent or stupid ?
Take away their guns and they're not as dangerous.
...I get that you are obsessed with firearms.. thinking they are going to jump out and shoot people out of their own accord...
No more than a car, unattended, is going to run me over
...we don't have a problem with guns....
No we have a problem with gun use
10k homicides, 70k+ injuries and mass shootings at almost one per day isn't a problem ?
...if we applied that same rational and the same statistics to say bicycles... you would understand....
I'd make them safer
Stay on topic
...first other countries.. notably japan.. have banned firearms..yet have a suicide rate higher than the US...
How many Japanese v Americans survive suicide attempts (I'd be willing to bet it's the Japanese)
...banning guns is no guarantee of preventing suicide....
If you're suicidal, and have a gun in the house, it's easier to attempt suicide and harder to survive an attempt
...other countries have much higher gun control than we do...
It's hard to think of a country with
LESS gun control than the USA
...and much fewer "gun deaths"..yet have more violent crime than we do....most studies show that the UK has at more violent crime than the US....
That may be true
Are you suggesting that if violent and stupid people in the UK had guns, there would be less violent crime ?
If gang members had guns instead of knives ?
...in the US.. we had a gun ban.. we banned assault weapons and high capacity magazines for 10 years... when they studied the effect of the gun ban.. they found no statistically significant effect on violence crime or gun injury....
So bans the guns found to be responsible for gun deaths and injuries as well....then do your study
...in the US we have banned marijuana, banned cocaine and banned alcohol.. and largely have found that not only is banning not effective.. but that it also led to greater societal problems....
Are you arguing for legalizing cocaine (and for that matter meth, LSD and heroin) ?
Sounds like you accept guns are a "social problem"
But banning guns is a lot easier than banning alcohol when booze can be imported and even made in the back yard with a crude still. Try making a gun in your back yard or illegally smuggling a lump of plastic and metal into the USA
...there is simply no evidence that banning firearms in the US will have any effect other than preventing law abiding citizens from owning firearms...
Excuse 3.1
They wouldn't be "law abiding" if they refused to obey a law to hand in their guns though.
I would imagine quite a lot of people would refuse and they'd face stiff fines - fines that'd go a long way to paying for the police/ATF operation to search and seize guns.
Guns would also become more and more useless as the supply of ammunition is turned off.
...you pointed out that the US has a problem with violence because it has more gun death than other countries....
More gun deaths, not necessarily a violent country overall with so much peaceful rural/nature areas
...we have more gun death than SYRIA
Syria is a war zone - or haven't you heard ?
...you should move to SYRIA..because its safer...
Move to a war zone ?
Would you tell, if you could, the 1776 founding fathers to move to another country if they didn't like the conditions here? If not why not? Then rethink your advice for the gun control lobby to relocate.
...there is absolutely no valid evidence to suggest that banning guns will stop shooting and mass shootings in particular...
You mean evidence from English speaking, predominantly Anglo-Saxon countries like the USA that have recent experience in banning guns
Like the UK and Australia ?