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the U.S.'s annual gun homicide rate of 2.97 fatalities per 100,000 people is triple the rate seen in most of the world's other wealthy nations
Bullshit. Statement completely unsupported by the data It is four times the rate of the second ranked wealthy nation (Switzerland, where 72% of all homicides are by firearm, and, coincidentally, every able-bodied man has a gun).
More like ten times the rate seen in most of the world's other wealthy nations. It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II
But not ammunition, which limits what you (or your kids) can do with it.
But not ammunition
Allow me to be sceptical about that. How does one explain that 10% of French murders, and 75% of Swiss murders, are by firearm?
Italy also has a high rate of murder by gun (66%), (source), which my prejudice leads me to ascribe to organised crime and illegal weapons. Perhaps it is the same in Switzerland? It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II
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