and now time for some more stats
United States Intentional Homicides rate 4.2, Switzerland .7 , UK 1.2 so someone explain to me why in a place where guns are practically required for young men in their twenties has a lower murder rate than UK. Japan is .3.
Now to get to Japans level of gun control you need to take away certain freedoms. such as privacy, due process and complete government control of the population.
of course Japan also disarmed their samurai swords but have mostly benefited from having a very robust economy for quite awhile
Meanwhile looking at crim rates the Us ranks #1 . with 11 million crimes(352 million). UK is 2nd with over 6 million(62 million) and japan is 6th with 2.8 million (126 million) Swizerland 300 thousand crimes (7 million). Switzerland has also began a proces of decriminalizing drug offenses with a program more treatment and less on jail sentences.
Ultimately as a Society Citizen gun ownership is a deterrent for many things. America is also a frontier country that has been
Then when you look at size. United States is 30 square kilometers per 1000 people that is the largest area per population of any country with more than 100 million people excluding Brazil and russia both of which the USA has a 2 to1 population ratio.
that goes into enforceability. 24 million of the the united states population live in a city of of a million or more. 82 % overall of the Unites states is considered in urban areas. thats 55 million in rural areas where gun control laws are difficult to enforce.
In comparison to Japan and UK the USA not only has a considerably larger per 1000 people urban population but the Unites states has over 55 million living in rural areas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_police_officers
law enforcement in the united states would need to at least quadruple to even come close to have similar results as UK(whose more than 100 per100000 advantage along with a significant per square kilometer advantage doesnt seem to help their crime rates.)and Japan.
Ps Japans suicide rate is double the Unites states.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_tot_cri-crime-total-crimes