> where as Greenland (Denmark), which arguably has tougher laws is 26 on the list.
...which resulted from 11 - eleven! - homicides. It's an anomalous stat because Greenland is so sparsely populated. I can't help but feel you're making an incredibly dishonest argument.
The Denmark mainland is on the list too, which is worth mentioning. It's ranked #202, with 47 homicides. Sure, the population is that of a smallish US state - it'd be somewhere around the 20th most-populous state - but the US had twelve thousand murders in the year listed. The rate is more than four times higher. Not a single US state, as of 2010, had a lower murder rate than Denmark's 0.8/100k.
2014 wasn't a fluke. Two thirds of murders in the US are committed with guns.
> Gun control is more-or-less just a politically charged topic that is used to garner votes from the public based on emotional pleas.
At least we can agree on this. For some reason people react emotionally to violent crime, go figure. What's unfortunate is that it doesn't (and realistically never will) garner nearly enough votes to enact policies that could put a dent in the murders.
...which resulted from 11 - eleven! - homicides. It's an anomalous stat because Greenland is so sparsely populated. I can't help but feel you're making an incredibly dishonest argument.
The Denmark mainland is on the list too, which is worth mentioning. It's ranked #202, with 47 homicides. Sure, the population is that of a smallish US state - it'd be somewhere around the 20th most-populous state - but the US had twelve thousand murders in the year listed. The rate is more than four times higher. Not a single US state, as of 2010, had a lower murder rate than Denmark's 0.8/100k.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_Sta...
> You don't need a gun to kill someone, and I would wager most murder occurs through some sort of beating/strangulation.
Oh come on, google it. The stats are hardly tentative.
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2014/...
> Information collected regarding types of weapons used in violent crime showed that firearms were used in 67.9 percent of the nation’s murders
The back years are posted here:
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s
2014 wasn't a fluke. Two thirds of murders in the US are committed with guns.
> Gun control is more-or-less just a politically charged topic that is used to garner votes from the public based on emotional pleas.
At least we can agree on this. For some reason people react emotionally to violent crime, go figure. What's unfortunate is that it doesn't (and realistically never will) garner nearly enough votes to enact policies that could put a dent in the murders.