Re: Riding a bike a protection and in general

On 6/18/2025 9:32 PM, John B. wrote:

 I believe that the numbers are that slightly more then 45 percent of
the U.S. population lives in a house where there is a gun.
 If guns in the home are so dangerous I guess that the U.S. population
must be decreasing at a rapid rate)

The appropriate statistic would not be total population. It would be gun deaths per capita. And by that metric, the U.S. looks far worse than any similarly prosperous or developed country. There are only poor or third world countries that look as bad.
Click this site's 2nd column, "Gun Homicide Rate" to sort the list in descending order.
<https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gun-deaths-by-country>
Similar data here:
<https://www.healthdata.org/news-events/insights-blog/acting-data/gun-violence-united-states-outlier>
Two right wing dogmas defy mathematical data:
"The U.S. gun fetish causes no problems"  and "The U.S. has a great health care system."
Anyone espousing those views must be innumerate.
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- Frank Krygowski