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Comparative gun homicide rate USA vs UK

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A person has one hundred times the likelihood of being murdered using a gun in the USA (which has rights) than they do in the UK (which has restrictions).

So curiously, the right to self-defence appears to make it more likely you will be killed by someone else with a gun than where such a right does not exist.

This is because there is, in fact, no way to distinguish the right to self-defence from the ability to attack someone. A gun is a gun.

Interestingly, it is also far more likely that you will kill yourself with a gun than that someone else kills you with one.


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