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We have no point of comparison. Is this more than usual?



According to this wiki article[0], 2018 (last year for which data is available) had around 14k non-suicide gun deaths. Looking at other figures suggests that this is close to the yearly average. So that's just under 40 non-suicide gun deaths per day in US.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_Sta...


Maybe it is normal? (in the U.S.). Wouldn't that be more insane?


Here's a point for comparison - the number of people who were killed by guns in the UK in the year prior to March 2019 (so pre-COVID) was 33.


The UK regulates and bans guns in ways that would be unacceptable even to US gun control advocates. (Actually, maybe especially amongst US gun control advocates. All the big, left-leaning pro-gun-control celebrities would lose their armed guards that they absolutely insist the restrictions shouldn't apply to - that's not a legitimate reason for owning or carrying a gun in the UK. US gun control activists think that regulating hand guns more strictly than rifles is absurd and wrong, whereas the UK completely banned handguns. Also, the UK issues gun licenses to people as young as 14, and this is a fundamental to our approach to guns: the idea is to treat guns as a tool that they can be allowed to use if they show they're responsible enough, rather than something glamorous and forbidden. All of this actually aligns surprisingly well with what pro-gun Americans think gun control supporters get wrong, from what I can tell.)


Second link in the article:

https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/

Click "Past Years" for historical data going back to 2014:

https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/past-tolls


This is about normal for the US, but quite high for anywhere else in the developed world. This long weekend had more gun deaths in the US than most developed countries have in a year.

The only countries that have US-levels of gun violence are unstable Latin American nations and war-torn countries in Northern Africa: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/11/09/6662094...




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