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Terry Hilldale's avatar

Oh good grief. I never said you were equating the US and Switzerland. No country has "lots of guns" in any way that compares to the US. A better comparison might be the US when the NRA was a gun safety organization rather than a gun culture organization. There was a time when the NRA membership was almost completely hunters and sportsmen. These days the NRA is openly courting civilian right-wing political militia types.

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Peter T's avatar

Heh, at this point I'm not sure if we're agreeing or disagreeing (and about what). :-)

But my original point was fairly simple: a country can have a high gun ownership rate* and not have a commensurate firearm casualty rate. I.e. there are other ingredients at work.

*NB: this doesn't imply anything about being the same rate as the US. Or imply the US doesn't have the highest rate, or anything else like that.

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