On 2 April 2015 at 13:12, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4/1/2015 5:05 PM, LizR wrote: > > On 2 April 2015 at 13:02, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 4/1/2015 4:47 PM, LizR wrote: >> >> On 2 April 2015 at 11:41, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 4/1/2015 3:19 PM, LizR wrote: >>> >>> So how does every other country in the world manage to have less >>>> guns per person than the USA? Magic? >>>> >>> For one thing they're poorer. The number of households with a gun >>> is far smaller than the number of guns. >>> >>> What, all other countries are poorer than the US? >> >> >> Of course not. I'm just pointing out one of the factors. Some, like >> Switzerland, are richer...and have a higher percentage of households with >> guns. >> > > So are you saying that there is a correlation between the per-capita > income of a country and the number of households with guns? If so, have you > got some stats? > > Yes, but I'm pointing out that the correlation is in part driven by the > expense of buying a gun and ammunition. So people in Bangladesh or Chad > are not likely to buy a rifle for sport or hunting. Whereas the US people > that buy a rifle for sport or hunting tend to also have another rifle for > target shooting and a shotgun or two and a couple of pistols. That's why, > although the number to guns in the US has gone up, the number of households > with a gun has gone down. >
So what about Europe, Canada, Svalbard, etc? I do of course agree with your point on a broad scale. I normally only say that the USA has more guns per person than other countries in the first world, since I assume the first world is roughly on a par economically. So income inequality may partially explain the gap between the USA and India, but not between the USA and the UK. I don't know about households (do the Swiss have more people per household than the US, or something? Or are you saying the map is wrong?) - this map only shows the average number of civilian-owned guns per capita. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
