Dear MEL Topic Readers,
How US gun culture compares with the world
Another gun massacre, the worst in history so far, by an individual occurred in Las Vegas in America leaving over 60 deaths and 500 wounded victims. They were having fun at an outdoor rock music concert on Sunday evening when the gunman started firing at them by machine guns from a hotel room on the 32nd floor. It was found that the gunman owned dozens of guns and thousands of ammunitions in his home. They were all purchased legally.
The country with a population of 323 million has over 900,000 armed officers. Also, there are as many guns as the number of people in the country, which represents nearly a half of the guns owned by civilians in the world. No wonder why the US has the highest rate of death by firearm in the developed world. The gun owners claim that those gun, including assault rifles and machine guns that are used by military forces, are for self-defense. And the majority of them own more than one gun.
In the meantime, there are countries that are nearly free from gun crimes. And countries that have restrictive gun laws seem to have a much fewer number of gun-related violence.
Enjoy reading and learning what makes the US more gun-violent than most others in the world.
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