Vanilly Crunch wrote:
Count Chocula wrote:
This is the same issue I have with debate about universal healthcare. "Look at Denmark!" Denmark has 5 million people. If you scale it up 75x you may or may not get the same results. Not to mention that the demographics are different.
I'm not taking either side here. Just pointing out that a comparison between two very different countries will probably be flawed.
Fair enough.
But if we are going to compare the US to other countries I would suggest that comparing us to developed nations (Western Europe, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Canada) makes a bit more sense than comparing us to shithole countries.
Agreed. I wouldn't compare homicide rates between the US and Somalia, for example. And while it's certainly fair to say that gun laws in Australia, Japan, etc. are reasons for their low shooting death rates, there is no "guarantee" that the same laws would produce the same result in America. That doesn't mean it is foolish to consider them.