Why is life expectancy higher in the UK than in the US?
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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.