Dallane wrote:Holy **** what a ***** idiot, he used wikipedia as a source AGAIN LOOOOOOOOL.
The stats he just quoted were from 2012 for germany and 2014 for usa from some random source in australia.
The stats haven't changed much since then. All stats like this are usually 2-3 years back because it takes a year or 2 to compile them.
Are you saying the numbers are wrong?
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As for the stats coming from Australia. The U.S. congress under the Republicans, under the orders of the NRA has made it impossible to do gun studies in the U.S. because it has stopped funding and blocked funding from going to Universities and other government funded organizations that are trying to study the problem.
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik ... story.htmlhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/sto ... years-ago/I use Wikipedia because it's easier to see multiple countries. Here's some other sites saying the exact same thing.
...about the U.S. number:
The Center for disease control:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htmThe Everytown movement:
https://everytownresearch.org/gun-viole ... e-numbers/The Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/databl ... e-us-stateCBS report on World Health Organization studies:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-u-s-gun ... countries/...about the German number:
GunPolicy.org:
http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/germanyNationmaster:
http://www.nationmaster.com/country-inf ... ates/CrimeAs you can see in this chart from gunpolicy.org, German gun deaths plummeted after their own tougher gun ownership restrictions started taking effect in the late 90's:

German gun ownership actually isn't that hard. It's a 3 month training course, a license similar to a driving license, gun locks or gun safes are required and the guns must be listed with the government. Of course it's limited to hunting rifles, shotguns and pistols.
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