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26,000 Kids Could Be Alive Today If US Had Same Gun Mortality Rate as Canada

The United States is home to 97% of the gun-related child deaths that have occurred in one dozen of the world's wealthiest nations in recent years.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2...oday-if-us-had-same-gun-mortality-rate-canada

 

Nearly all of which are suicides and gang crime.

If you look at the effectiveness of gun control policies and gun buybacks, etc, you would have to remove twice as many guns as exist in the country to get our violent crime and murder rates close to that of Canada's.

However, improving our gini coefficient to that of Canada's would result of a far greater reduction in gun mortality (as well as overall violent crime) than any gun control measures possibly could, and at a fraction of the cost.

If Democrats want to compete with Republicans they need to stop pushing for more restrictions and start pushing for more benefits as a solution to these problems.