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Originally Posted by widgeon13
This has been circulating on the internet. Is it true?? I don't know but I would love to know the truth.
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The stats are readily available on the internet. The states of IL, NY, CA, and FL are responsible for less than a quarter of the overall gun deaths numbers for the country - 3000 out of around 14,000, iirc.
And what people tend to do is focus too much on guns. The USA has around 10x as many gun-related deaths as other 1st-world countries, though we're way behind Russia, China, Mexico, South America and Africa. If you go by all homicides, rather than focusing on just guns, we move much further down the stats. Other countries have just as many murders as us - after all, people are people; they just don't use guns. I think what skews US numbers over other countries is the high number of accidents with guns. We're not more violent that other countries - we're more careless.