robertjerl wrote:
What counts in the end is murder rate, not method, killers use guns because it is easy. No gun, they will use edged weapons, clubs etc., the army taught me how to use a rolled up newspaper, wire and numerous other things as improvised weapons.
No matter what the killer used, you are just as dead, there is no such thing as deader or deadest, there is just dead
The murder rate is important, but the video misrepresents the story. Yes, the US is mid-range in murder rate, but if you exclude third world countries, and focus only on industrialized nations the story is much different. Among the 21 top industrialized nations the US murder rate is the highest, and not by a little. The murder rate for males 15-24 years of age in the US is 21.9/100,000 (and 4 times as high for black males of the same age bracket). The next highest murder rate in industrialized countries is Scotland, with a rate of 5/100,000. Austria has the lowest rate, 0.3/100,000.