GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE, OR DO THEY?

[HairOfTheDog]

Any stats on global gun ownership and homicide rates?

I've seen all kinds of stats posted in this thread. Not sure if homicides in comparison to ownership is one of them or available. But, here's a chart of firearm homicides per country.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cou...death_rate

The piece I posted from Huffington Post struck me as odd. It was just sitting there in the "Politics" section today. I read it and wondered, "and...?"

The data is from 2007 and the conclusion that most US gun households own multiple guns is something that we determined using common sense and the old stats (from which we calculated an average per household) way upthread. I think that "conclusion" is pretty common knowledge actually.

So, what was point of the story in the "Politics" section? I guess it's the contention that America has stock piled half of the world guns. I don't think that's far-fetched and wouldn't be surprised if it's true. Maybe it's political news to some, or maybe just an attempt to keep guns in the headlines.