Here are a few simple facts to draw your own conclusions from. Mexico is often considered the murder capital of the world. Using 2023 as the year and factoring in the murder rate of 30,000 murders that year you come up with 23 murders per 100,000 people.
How does that stack up to the U.S?. Using the same data, the murder rate in the U.S. is 6.3 murders per 100,000 people. Pretty good. About a quarter of the rate of Mexico.
Now consider Australia. Back around 1970 they experienced a mass murder. Unlike the U.S. they decided to do something about it. So they made personal ownership of firearms against the law and gathered them all up. No pesky Second Amendment to get in the way. Their 2023 murder rate was .87 murders per 100,000. Yup, less than one murder per 100,000. Just think about that. They had 247 murders in the whole country vs 19,000 in the U.S.
I am aware that gathering up all of the firearms will never happen in the U.S. But we will continue to pay a very high price.
Jim Pedler, Salt Lake City
