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tmay said:

steveh said:

According to The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime's (UNODC) site the Global Study on Homicide:

Intentional homicide rates:  Germany 0.8/100K population; USA 3.8/100K population.

According to those numbers, the US ranks 121 out of 218 countries, Germany ranks 203. The US ranks lower than known highly-violent nations such as Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania. The US homicide rate has dropped in half since the early '90s, oddly enough coincident with the widespread adoption of shall-issue carry laws in (now) 37 states. And if you subtract the "contribution" of a small segment of the overall US population, young urban hispanic and black males, the US homicide rate turns out to be almost identical to Canada's rate, about 1.4/100K.

It's something other than guns that's the gating items.

There's another study that makes a correlation between leaded gasoline and crime; correlation isn't necessarily causation.

At any rate, I find it interesting that the CDC is banned by Congress from funding studies on gun violence. Perhaps such studies would establish the connection between mental illness / mental incompetence and gun violence; almost certainly a strong correlation to mass killings, especially by young males.

I worry more about violence from an off kilter gun owner than any terrorist, and in most cases, concealed carry isn't going to make any difference.