HUH?
I disagree. I think owning guns keep you sane... I mean. Think about this one. Did you know that Americans kill more with knives than guns? That is the FBI report... and always have been throughout the history. The difference is, knives kill INDIVIDUAL, and gun killing is either individual (mostly) or mass (rarely).
Um, I think you are brainwashed by media. I personally owned some over twenty guns and rifles myself (I was in a boy scout troop number 1347, look up it up if you want). Didn't bring them with me.
Although Europe is gunless, CR is probably the most least restrictive.
BY THE WAY, when gun control law ever get passed (who knows), good luck with Communist China. Mao himself famously said back in 1950s, "Americans are terrorists because they are gun owners".
I think you've misread it. There are more incidents with knives than guns, but they are less fatal.
In a journal study I've read, based on medical expenses of injuries people got by using hospital stats, there were more incidents with patients involved with sharp objects than firearms in the US: (135,690 vs 53,750) but guns were more fatal in injury incidents than sharp objects: (10,840 vs 1,810). The numbers are reduced by a factor of per 100,000 people. Those are assuming incidents from both sexes. If it's just males alone, the discrepancy is a lot higher than females.
On your second statement, there is truth in that. The US also accounted for 80% of deaths involving firearms across first world nations of the globe.
These are the sources I used for the statements above:
Corso, P. S., Mercy, J. A., Simon, T. R., Finkelstein, E. A., & Miller, T. R. (2007). Medical costs and productivity losses due to interpersonal and self-directed violence in the United States. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 32(6), 474-482.
Richardson, E. G., & Hemenway, D. (2011). Homicide, suicide, and unintentional firearm fatality: comparing the United States with other high-income countries, 2003. The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 70(1), 238.
