I noticed one wingnut responded to evidence that the US has much higher rates of violence than countries with better gun control by blaming “minorities”, single mothers (read “sluts”) and drugs from Mexico.

That’s how they blot out the obvious in their minds.

I think I saw a statistic here the other day on firearm related injuries and deaths or something like tha that said that we have something like 2000 times as many as England. I looked up the population, and the population ratio is slightly less than 6. … though when I calculate it below the ratio is about 1/3 of that, maybe he was using more recent stats.

let me look that up now..
Wikipedia:
In 2009, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 66.9% of all homicides in the United States were perpetrated using a firearm.[4] There were 52,447 deliberate and 23,237 accidental non-fatal gunshot injuries in the United States during 2000.[5] The majority of gun-related deaths in the United States are suicides,[6] with 17,352 (55.6%) of the total 31,224 firearm-related deaths in 2007 due to suicide, while 12,632 (40.5%) were homicide deaths.

Interesting. Deliberate outweighs accidental by 2 to 1.
I wish the stats were up to date.

Gun deaths from firearms UK (which includes more than England):
210 in the year 2006 (UK population in 2006 was 60.6 million)
Injuries reported to hospitals in England in 2002: 129 (English population in 2002 was 48 million

us population in 2000 was 281 million
2007 301 million

so US firearms injury rate 2.7 per 10000
uk firearms injury rate 2.4 per 1,000,000
ratio 100

us firearms death rate 1 per 10,000
uk firearms death rate 3.5 per 1,000,000
ratio 30