Topic category:  Crime/Gun Control

All those in favor of a gun ban in the US, please...

Before I finish the question, consider the following information to help inform your answer...

The World Health Organization released the yearly number of murders per 100,000 citizens for every country in the organization (this is a health issue?). Here are their results:

     Honduras  91.6
     El Salvador  69.2
     Cote d'lvoire  56.9
     Jamaica  52.2
     Venezuela  45.1
     Belize  41.4
     US Virgin Islands  39.2
     Guatemala  38.5
     Saint Kits and Nevis  38.2
     Zambia   38.0
     Uganda  36.3
     Malawi   36.0
     Lesotho  35.2
     Trinidad and Tobago  35.2
     Colombia  33.4
     South Africa  31.8
     Congo  30.8
     Central African Republic  29.3
     Bahamas  27.4
     Puerto Rico  26.2
     Saint Lucia  25.2
     Dominican Republic  25.0
     Tanzania  24.5
     Sudan  24.2
     Saint Vincent and the Grenadines  22.9
     Ethiopia  22.5
     Guinea  22.5
     Dominica  22.1
     Burundi  21.7
     Democratic Republic of the Congo  21.7
     Panama  21.6
     Brazil   21.0
     Equatorial Guinea  20.7
     Guinea-Bissau   20.2
     Kenya   20.1
     Kyrgyzstan  20.1
     Cameroon  19.7
     Montserrat  19.7
     Greenland  19.2
     Angola  19.0
     Guyana  18.6
     Burkina Faso 18.0
     Eritrea  17.8
     Namibia  17.2
     Rwanda  17.1
     Mexico  16.9
     Chad  15.8
     Ghana  15.7
     Ecuador  15.2
     North Korea 15.2
     Benin  15.1
     Sierra Leone 14.9
     Mauritania 14.7
     Botswana 14.5
     Zimbabwe 14.3
     Gabon 13.8
     Nicaragua 13.6
     French Guiana 13.3
     Papua New Guinea 13.0
     Swaziland 12.9
     Bermuda 12.3
     Comoros 12.2
     Nigeria 12.2
     Cape Verde  11.6
     Grenada  11.5
     Paraguay  11.5
     Barbados 11.3
     Togo 10.9
     Gambia  10.8
     Peru 10.8
     Myanmar  10.2
     Russia 10.2
     Liberia  10.1
     Costa Rica  10.0
     Nauru 9.8
     Bolivia  8.9
     Mozambique  8.8
     Kazakhstan  8.8
     Senegal  8.7
     Turks and Caicos Islands  8.7
     Mongolia  8.7
     British Virgin Islands  8.6
     Cayman Islands  8.4
     Seychelles  8.3
     Madagascar  8.1
     Indonesia 8.1
     Mali  8.0
     Pakistan  7.8
     Moldova  7.5
     Kiribati  7.3
     Guadeloupe  7.0
     Haiti  6.9
     Timor-Leste  6.9
     Anguilla  6.8
     Antigua and Barbuda  6.8
     Lithuania  6.6
     Uruguay  5.9
     Philippines  5.4
     Ukraine 5.2
     Estonia  5.2
     Cuba 5.0
     Belarus  4.9
     Thailand  4.8
     Suriname 4.6
     Laos  4.6
     Georgia 4.3
     Martinique  4.2

Oh yes, and the United States:  4.2

Every one of the countries and territories listed above has annual murders equal to or greater than the United States. And every one of them have laws that severely restrict gun ownership!

Switzerland is not shown because there were no murders in Switzerland to report. Please also note that in Switzerland every citizen is required to:

1. Own a gun.
   
2. Regularly maintain marksman qualifications.
   
3. Carry a weapon.
   

Now, back to that opening question...

All those in favor of a gun ban in the United States, please signify by raising your hand.

Everyone with his hand raised is urged to immediately report to the nearest mental health clinic to have his head examined. If you are among the hand-raisers, it is imperative that you be examined by mental health experts so the cause of your loss of capacity to think logically can be diagnosed and treated without delay.

Thank you for your participation.

Bob Webster
WEBCommentary (Editor, Publisher)

Biography - Bob Webster

Author of "Looking Out the Window", an evidence-based examination of the "climate change" issue, Bob Webster, is a 12th-generation descendent of both the Darte family (Connecticut, 1630s) and the Webster family (Massachusetts, 1630s). He is a descendant of Daniel Webster's father, Revolutionary War patriot Ebenezer Webster, who served with General Washington. Bob has always had a strong interest in early American history, our Constitution, U.S. politics, and law. Politically he is a constitutional republican with objectivist and libertarian roots. He has faith in the ultimate triumph of truth and reason over deception and emotion. He is a strong believer in our Constitution as written and views the abandonment of constitutional restraint by the regressive Progressive movement as a great danger to our Republic. His favorite novel is Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand and believes it should be required reading for all high school students so they can appreciate the cost of tolerating the growth of unconstitutional crushingly powerful central government. He strongly believes, as our Constitution enshrines, that the interests of the individual should be held superior to the interests of the state.

A lifelong interest in meteorology and climatology spurred his strong interest in science. Bob earned his degree in Mathematics at Virginia Tech, graduating in 1964.