Reply To: THE PUZZLE OF MURDER-BY-GUN STATISTICS
The correlation is between higher rates of firearm ownership and higher rates of firearm related death. My justification is the scientific research I previously posted based on data from 27 countries.
So, this chart showing rate of homicides in various countries should also function as a chart of rate of gun ownership. So, then, Swiss residents will have far fewer guns than residents of the US or Brazil, right?
Here is a chart that combines gun homicides and gun ownership in the same chart. See any correlations there:
