The EU has 30% more people
There are 60 times as many privately owned guns in the EU as there are in Montana.
There are 5 time as many guns in the US, but 20 times as many murders.
There is a cultural problem in the US with firearms.
> There are 5 time as many guns in the US, but 20 times as many murders.
gonna need a fact-check on these claims, please, because initial googling reveals these are, at the very least, false or misleading
I live in the Northeast US and very few people have guns here.
Incidentally, even if it is difficult to purchase a gun, it's trivial to order a crossbow or airbow, which has just as much 1-shot stopping power (although, of course, after that 1 shot, reload can be a problem, less so with the airbow)
https://www.euronews.com/2019/08/05/which-european-country-b...
> Around 46% of all 857 million guns in civilian hands around the world belonged to people living in the United States in 2017, a survey has found.
> The European Union's 513 million inhabitants owned a collective 79.8 million firearms in 2017.
And the “20 times as many murders” is not right, but seems to be pretty close if they were just taking about firearms homicides.
https://www.healthdata.org/news-events/insights-blog/acting-....
> Age-adjusted firearm homicide rates in the US are 13 times greater than they are in France, and 22 times greater than in the European Union as a whole.
I also live in the Northeast, but that’s a point against when talking about this stuff; when you live in the only reasonably run part of the US, it is easy to misunderstand how ridiculous things are in much of the country.
I actually don’t care to argue back. I object to the argument-less fact check request and insinuation that the figures are misleading, on principle. It is annoying to give your conversation partners homework for no reason.
I think the cultural problem is everyone wants to be like Stallone or Arnie, which would suggest the US population has an inferiority complex towards the old world.
Even gun suicides are far higher in the US per capita and per gun than in the EU.
The US has a gun fetish. People sleep with them for crying out loud!
But everyone still claims they are "A responsible gun owner" because all that actually means to the gun culture in the US is that you are white or rural or conservative.