What are some statistics that support gun control?
The United States has one of the highest levels of gun violence of any country in the world. We’re similar to other industrialized countries when we look at other levels of violence — rapes, burglaries, people killed by fights or knifings or things like that. But when we look at the level of gun violence in this country we’re significantly worse and significantly more violent than any other country in the world. Every day in this country 32 people are murdered by guns. Every day in this country about 80 people die from guns. But then there’s another 40 or so suicides and a couple accidents every day. That level of violence from guns is something that the rest of the world doesn’t see and should be unacceptable here. Gun restrictions can help. Countries that have restricted access to guns, that have restricted the types of guns that they go out, they have significantly lower levels of violence than we do. Even countries that are highly industrialized, even countries that have sort of t
