Why is life expectancy higher in the UK than in the US?
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Guns are a red herring in mortality rate figures. Most are suicides, which really have nothing to do with guns, since it's just the tool they chose. When you remove those, and lawful shootings, which are a good thing, we're better off than countries that have far stricter gun regulations.
Are you sure? Not trying to make an anti-gun argument, but the percapitanumber of murders in the US is vastly greater than in any other Western country.
Well, not to shift goalposts, but the 2018 non-hispanic white population in America was almost 200 million and they committed 1,476 murders (not all involving firearms).
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-2018/topic-pages/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-6.xls
That’s a rate of fewer that one per 100 thousand, and comparable or better than most European countries.
The point being, the US doesn't have a gun problem, we have a demographic problem; where certain ethnic groups are orders of magnitude more violent than white people.