What I find most interesting about these charts is how high a gun level Switzerland has. This is how they maintain neutrality by requiring Swiss citizens to serve in their military for 2 years both male and female. This contributes to how many weapons there are in that country. So, having a lot of weapons actually stabilizes a country and allows it to be neutral like Switzerland. And if a country loses all it's weapons the people become much more vulnerable to dictators like Hitler when he registered all weapons, then took them away from Jewish people stole all their valuables and then burned men, women and children and babies alive in gas ovens. This is why many people worry about Trump because both men have Narcissistic Personality disorder which has no empathy at all for others which makes both of them sociopathic and dangerous as world leaders.
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How US gun culture compares with the world in 5 charts
How US gun culture compares with the world in 5 charts
Updated 7:47 AM ET, Wed October 4, 2017
(CNN)It
was supposed to be the euphoric climax of a three-day festival
celebrating country music. Music fans of all ages had flooded the
grounds opposite the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on the Las Vegas
Strip to enjoy the sold-out show.
But
the concert was violently interrupted when a gunman carried out the
deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. At least 58 people
were killed and more than 500 injured.
The shooting has once again reignited the debate around gun rights in the US. Here's how America's gun culture compares to the rest of the world.
Although
America's unique relationship to guns sits at the forefront of the
national psyche, gun culture in the US is often seen as an outlier
globally.
The number of firearms
available to American civilians is estimated at around 310 million,
according to a 2009 National Institute of Justice (NIJ) report.
India is home to the second largest civilian firearm stockpile, estimated at 46 million.
The
most updated estimates -- now nearly a decade old -- place the
worldwide civilian gun cache at around 650 million. According to
Switzerland-based Small Arms Survey, the number of civilian guns has
most likely risen since 2007. Firearm production continues to
proliferate worldwide, outweighing the effects that gun destruction
might have.
According to the Small
Arms Survey, the exact number of civilian-owned firearms is impossible
to pinpoint because of a variety of factors including arms that go
unregistered, the illegal trade and global conflict.
Americans
own the most guns per person in the world, about four in 10 saying they
either own a gun or live in a home with guns, according to a recent Pew Center study. Forty-eight percent of Americans said they grew up in a house with guns.
According
to the survey, a majority (66%) of US gun owners own multiple firearms,
with nearly three-quarters of gun owners saying they couldn't imagine
not owning one.
Yemen,
home to the world's second-largest gun-owning population per capita
(and a country in the throes of a two-and-a-half-year civil conflict)
trails significantly behind the US in terms of ownership.
When it comes to gun massacres, the US is an anomaly.
There are more public mass shootings in America than in any other country in the world.
Before
Sunday, the 2016 Orlando attack was the deadliest mass shooting in
modern US history, with 49 people killed. In 2012, Adam Lanza went on a
shooting spree in Newtown, Connecticut, killing his mother before
murdering 26 students and staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School; in
2007, 32 people were killed in the Virginia Tech massacre.
Such
massacres have prompted debates about gun control, but they also
increase demand for guns. And regulations covering the sale of firearms
are looser now that they were just a few months ago.
In February, US President Donald Trump signed a measure that scrapped a Obama-era regulation aimed at keeping guns out of the hands of some severely mentally ill people.
The
original rule was part of a series of moves taken by the Obama
administration to try and curb gun violence after other efforts failed
to advance in Congress.
Globally, restrictive gun laws have proven to make a difference in curbing massacres.
In Australia, for example, four mass shootings occurred between 1987 and 1996. After those incidents, public opinion turned against gun ownership and Parliament passed stricter gun laws. Australia hasn't had a mass shooting since.
The US has one of the highest rates of death by firearm in the developed world, according to World Health Organization data.
Our
calculations based on OECD data from 2010 show that Americans are 51
times more likely to be killed by gunfire than people in the United
Kingdom.
Most
American gun owners (two-thirds) say a major reason they own a gun is
for their personal protection, according to the Pew study. However, the
majority of America's firearm-related deaths are attributed to
self-harm.
Gun-related suicides are eight times higher in the US than in other high-income nations.
Globally, the US sees fewer gun-related murders than many of its southern neighbors.
According
to the Small Arms Survey, El Salvador is currently home to the most
gun-related murders in the world (excluding active war-zones) with guns
killing more than 90 people for every 100,000 of population.
From
2010-2015, Honduras saw the highest averages of gun-related homicides,
with guns killing 67 out of every 100,000 people there.
Venezuela
and El Salvador also top the charts over the same five-year period,
with 52 and 49 gun-related deaths, respectively, for every 100,000 of
population.
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