raylynn99 said: You ignored the illegal drug situation.
Suicide is suicide; a gun is just one way to get it done. How about folks who use drugs of all types to commit suicide?
When murder rates for inner city hood rats are removed, America is a very safe place.
Judges and DA’s who are soft on crime , especially gun crimes, are big contributors to the problem also.
Yes, I ignored your deviation from the topic of the gun situation to drugs. They are two completely different scenarios. Yes, guns are just one way to commit suicide, but that isn't the point. The firearm death situation from either suicide or murder is way out of hand in the US and it's because there is a ratio of 120 guns to every 100 people in the country, which is ridiculous.
Obviously the rate of murders in densely populated cities is likely to be much greater than in the rural areas of the country, but America overall is NOT a "very safe place", certainly when compared to other advanced western democracies where there are sensible NATIONAL laws restricting guns, as you would realize if you took notice of all the graphs/tables in that article.
Yes, people use drugs. Yes people die because they use drugs, but most of those deaths would be accidental overdoses, not people using drugs with the intention of committing suicide, although admittedly that does happen. Most of the drugs used in intentional suicides would be drugs designed for other purposes (e.g. combatting illness or disease), whereas guns,especially what are generally referred to nowadays as "assault weapons", are specifically designed to kill or injure.
As far as the judicial system being tough on crime, America has the highest incarceration rate per head of population IN THE WORLD and is one of the very few western democracies where the death penalty is still carried out, so to say the system is "soft on crime" is hardly valid.