Everyone always brings up guns. They think America is a dangerous place because of guns.. guns this guns that.
After watching the movie "Bowling for Columbine" I did some research to see what the gun related death rates really were. People constantly bring up how safe Japan is, because there were so few gun related deaths. Statistics can often be skewed in any direction to support almost any argument. Obviously the movie "Bowling for Columbine" took those stats and presented them in a very skewed way.
Suicidal Americans often use a gun in the process of their suicide. So all of those incidents get included in the "Gun related death" stats. Did you know that most Japanese commit suicide with knife into their stomach? (seppuku)
So let's look at a chart that displays "international violent death rates showing gun and non-gun homicide, suicide, and total violent death rates". After all, safety should include all forms of homicide.
http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcgvintl.html
Here are a few highlights:
Country....................... Death Rate per 100,000 people
Austria......................... 23.36
Switzerland................. 22.80
France......................... 22.67
Mexico......................... 21.74
Belgium....................... 20.77
United States.............. 18.57
Japan.......................... 17.34
Sweden....................... 17.12
Germany...................... 17.00
Canada........................ 15.64
Australia....................... 14.65
Israel............................ 9.80
Go look at the whole list.. America hardly looks like such a dangerous place to live!!
http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcgvintl.html