My point was that "high" and "low" don't mean much.
guns/person isn't really an interesting number anyway, what's far more interesting is gun-owners/person. In canada it's about 26% (according to the intertoobs) .
In the US, it's about... 26% (80M) It's just that gun owners here tend to own more than one.
So your point is that the US and Canada have roughly the same percentage of gun owners. Presumably you're OK with agreeing that Canada's rate of violent crime is drastically lower than the US's rate.
Which leads me back to the original point, that gun ownership and rates of violent crime are completely uncorrelated. Done now.
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Re: You could just as easily say
My point was that "high" and "low" don't mean much.
guns/person isn't really an interesting number anyway, what's far more interesting is gun-owners/person. In canada it's about 26% (according to the intertoobs) .
In the US, it's about... 26% (80M) It's just that gun owners here tend to own more than one.
Re: You could just as easily say
Which leads me back to the original point, that gun ownership and rates of violent crime are completely uncorrelated. Done now.