On 4/1/2015 5:36 PM, LizR wrote:
On 2 April 2015 at 13:12, meekerdb <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:On 4/1/2015 5:05 PM, LizR wrote:On 2 April 2015 at 13:02, meekerdb <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On 4/1/2015 4:47 PM, LizR wrote:On 2 April 2015 at 11:41, meekerdb <[email protected] <mailto:[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.
Sure there are obviously cultural and legal differences too. I was in Sydney on the day of the Port Arthur massacre. I gathered that, before that, personal ownership of guns in Australia was fairly common and not much regulated. It motivated severe restrictions on and confiscation of privately owned guns.
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.
So how did they count guns in Switzerland where all militia aged citizens are issued an assault rifle - which they can keep when they leave the militia at age 35?
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