Les Jones

Guns > Who Are the 10 Slackers?

U.S. most armed country with 90 guns per 100 people:

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States has 90 guns for every 100 citizens, making it the most heavily armed society in the world, a report released on Tuesday said.

U.S. citizens own 270 million of the world's 875 million known firearms, according to the Small Arms Survey 2007 by the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International Studies.

About 4.5 million of the 8 million new guns manufactured worldwide each year are purchased in the United States, it said.

U.S.A.! U.S.A.!

You know, lots of people complain about the military, police, and government. Yet a surprising percentage of those same people think the military, police, and government should be the only ones with guns.

Be consistent. Just don't trust the government. All politicians belong to the Politician's Party, and they're ultimately not to be trusted. They're certainly not to be trusted with a monopoly on force.

From the article:

France, Canada, Sweden, Austria and Germany were next, each with about 30 guns per 100 people, while many poorer countries often associated with violence ranked much lower. Nigeria, for instance, had just one gun per 100 people.

"Firearms are very unevenly distributed around the world. The image we have of certain regions such as Africa or Latin America being awash with weapons -- these images are certainly misleading," Small Arms Survey director Keith Krause said.

And in those countries the violence is perpetrated by the government or government-sanctioned groups. In the 20th century the most common non-natural cause of death was being murdered by your own government. Stalin killed several times more Russians than Hitler killed his fellow Germans. Mao alone killed some 50 million of his fellow Chinese. As one slogan goes, with gun ownership you get tragedies, without gun ownership you get genocides.