How Violent Are Americans?

The point being, that Americans have an innate culture of reckless and wide-spread firearms use. @Swolliw

Ehem......Compared to who? @Vaulk

Ehem......Compared to the rest of the world; but ewwww....I would say by only a very teeny weeny slight margin.........NOT.

• Only a dozen of the USA’s 50 states require permits to purchase a gun
• 19,379 gun violence deaths were recorded in the US in 2020
• 612 mass shootings happened in 2020
• America’s gun suicide rate is ten times higher than many European countries
• The USA sees 100 times more firearm-related deaths per 100,000 people compared to Germany
• There are 316 people shot in America every day
• 11 US presidents have been victims of an attempted assassination involving firearms
• More than 75% of first and second graders know where their parents keep firearms

Guns per 100 head of population:

1. United States - 120.5
   
2. Falkland Islands - 62.1
3. Yemen - 52.8
4. New Caledonia - 42.5
5. Serbia - 39.1 (tie)
6. Montenegro - 39.1 (tie)
7. Uruguay - 34.7 (tie)
8. Canada - 34.7 (tie)
9. Cyprus - 34
10. Finland - 32.4

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You just don't want to know, do you? Continually asking others to explain their comments and to supply data just isn't going to save you from the inevitable.......whether you like it or not or whether you want to admit it or just stay in denial; America is an extremely violent, homicidal country fueled by out of control gun use and rivalled by no other country on earth.

When Americans start to wake up from their self-imposed arrogant, over-religious, self-righteous, denialist behaviour, they may just earn a bit more respect from the rest of the world.