SM, NZ was a ticking time bomb, sure repeal all gun laws, make them freely available to all, and you are unlikely to have mass murder tomorrow, or even the next day, but that day will come as sure as night follows day.

//Just to add a bit of racism check out the number of murders among African Americana// Yep, must be the colour of their skin that does it. Hassy, wouldn't have anything to do with social disadvantage now would it. That's a hard concept (social disadvantage) for a knuckle dragger to understand, so we'll just leave it as the colour of their skin being the cause. Should I add the African Americans to your list?

Thanks Foxy for the link, very interesting.

Paul,

Found anything to back up your wild assertions, you know, a reference?

Did you know that the Greens value chooks (egg laying kind more than women?).

Foxy

From your quoted site

"One reason America ranks so high is its large population: A country with more people is, all other things held equal, generally going to have more gun deaths.

To that end, the US’s rate of gun deaths is a bit lower than the other countries on this list; it was at 10.6 per 100,000 people, while Mexico was at 11.8, Brazil 19.4, Colombia 25.9, Guatemala 32.3, and Venezuela 38.7. El Salvador, which was not on the top six list for overall deaths, had the highest gun death rate in the world at 39.2 per 100,000 people. The global rate of gun deaths was 3.4 per 100,000 people.

[a bit lower? half the rate for El Salvador!!]

Globally, most gun deaths were homicides. But in the US, most were suicides.
[so the US murder rate is even lower]

The US was one of 17 countries (out of 195) in which both the firearm homicide rate and firearm suicide rate were higher than the global median."

Very informative, Foxy, keep up the good work.

Have a read of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate
where the US gun murder rate is 4.46 per 100,000.

' If makes me sad that death has so little value to us that we go streight away into politics after hearing about a shooting'

Yeah Not Now Soon. I suppose if a society can murder millions of unborn babies it shows the value of life has diminished drastically in the Western world.

Paul ise mise taking to you is like a flogging with a wet lettuce leaf
Facts remain, if we had those American laws every lard head[ and we all know some] would be on our streets armed
A detractor of mine, follower of one nation, says not having the right for everyone to be armed is an attack on our freedoms
Then again he is waiting for that party to govern this country

I notice that Pres Trump is calling for tougher gun laws.
I wonder how the anti Trump Derangement crowd will handle that ?
They are probably in a coma for a day or day or two.

The question about Afro Americans is not an idle question.
Gun crime and murder generally is much higher among them.
There is a very politically incorrect reason for that which is somewhat
similar to the Middle Eastern muslim reasons for violence and inability to compromise.
I won't say here what it is, just do the research yourself.