If you type 'America "gun culture" into Google you get 269,000 hits.
I hope people realize that when the rest of the world talks about America's gun culture it is not the possession and use of guns in itself that they find so objectional, it is the possession and use of firearms by the individual. It is the loss of the state's monopoly on violence that they find so incomprehensible in the United States.
Their desperation to make their point leads to garbage like this from the Independent...
16 children and teenagers are killed by gun accidents in the US each dayDo they own calculators in Europe ?
That's 5840 deaths a year.
The actual number (for 2000) is 193. A terrible number but only 3% of the above figure.
Here's some more data...
| Fatalities among all persons ages 0-19 | |||
| Assault | 1,776 | ||
| Suicide | 1,007 | ||
| Accident | 193 | ||
| Unexplained | 36 | ||
| Total | 3,012 | ||
| Average daily number | 8.3 |
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