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Originally Posted by marichiko
The problem is not gun ownership. In Finland, 50% of all households own at least one gun, and their gun related homicide rate is only .87%. By contrast, the US with a mere 42% of all households owning guns has a gun related homicide rate of something like 6.7%.
Finland has a free press, too; so its not Maggie's liberal media which is responsible for this disparity. US society has some deep problems, in case no one has noticed.
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The United States problems include the drug trade, lack of family structure, and unlike Finland, we do not have a homogenous population.
I do wonder what the homicide statistics would look like if you removed all drug-related shootings ... probably a lot closer to Finland's number.