A friend asked me today what country had the most guns per person, he thought it was the US and my guess was Canada because of something I remember from that terrible Michael Moore movie.
When I went to Wikipedia I was floored.
The list goes as follows
Year | Comment | |||
1 | 90.0 | 2007 | ||
2 | 61.0 | 2007 | ||
3 | 46.0 | 2007 | ||
4 | 39.0 | 2007 | ||
5 | 37.5 | 2007 | ||
6 | 32.0 | 2007 | ||
7 | 32.0 | 2008 | ||
8 | 31.8 | 2010 | ||
9 | 31.5 | 2007 | ||
10 | 31.5 | 2007 | ||
11 | 31.0 | 2007 | ||
12 | 30.0 | 2007 | ||
13 | 26.8 | 1993 | ||
14 | 26.3 | 2007 | ||
15 | 20.5 | 2007 | ||
16 | 16.0 | 2007 | ||
17 | 15.5 | 2007 | ||
18 | 15.0 | 2007 | ||
19 | 13.1 | 2007 | ||
20 | 13.0 | 2007 | ||
21 | 12.6 | 2007 | ||
22 | 12.1 | 2007 | ||
23 | 12.0 | 2007 | ||
24 | 11.0 | 2007 | ||
25 | 9.0 | 2007 | ||
26 | 9.0 | 2007 | ||
27 | 8.8 | 2007 | ||
28 | 7.2 | 2007 | ||
29 | 5.6 | 2007 | ||
30 | 5.3 | 2007 | ||
31 | 4.7 | 2007 | ||
32 | 4.0 | 2007 | ||
33 | 3.5 | 2007 | ||
34 | 1.0 | 2007 |
Now mind you that this is not the percentage of people who own guns but the total amount of guns in the country divided by the total amount of people. My guess is that US Citizens may have a higher population of gun owners but also have many people who have an arsenal in their closet.
Now we believe that there is a right to own a gun although we are not at all comfortable with some psychopath having an automatic with clips of 30 bullets but we have some TOR observations
· if you are topping any list and Yemen is finishing with the silver medal than this might not be a list you want to be on.
· This list just divides total guns by total people, where is the list of percentage of people who own guns?
· But even if you take that into consideration there are 90 guns for every 100 people in the states and I the CIA.Gov website says that 20% of our population is under the age of 14. I can't imagine that there are that many 10 year olds with guns so if you subtract the amount of pre-pubescent kids from the list there are more guns than adults.
· How the hell Switzerland so high, what kind of militia is are those chocolate lovers forming?
· How Mexico #18 on this list, all I hear about is is huge weapons caches in places like Juarez. Does this mean that the guy enjoying the siesta are the ones without the guns and only a small percentage of Mexicans (drug warlords) have a ton of them?
· All my European Friends and Family are always knocking the states for the amount of gun violence but countries like Greece, France, Sweden and Finland are all in the top 10.
· Where the hell are Afghanistan and Somalia on this list.. those warlords are giving a kid a gun as they are shooting out of their birthing canal.
· I have yet to hear a decent argument for the gun-show loophole. This is like saying that a kid can't buy alcohol except when they go to a beer-show they can all of a sudden get sloshed (actually this sounds like the Patty's Day Parade so forget it)
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