OK, let’s. The homicide rate in Japan is 0.28 murders per 100,000 people. The homicide rate in the U.S. is 5.35 murders per 100,000 people. So you’re almost 20 times as likely to be murdered in the United States as you are in Japan.
Access to guns is not the only factor in that discrepancy, but it is a major one because guns are uniquely well-suited tools for killing people. That’s why we don’t send soldiers into combat armed with swords anymore.
If you want to kill a whole bunch of people at the same time then access to guns is even more important as you’d be hard-pressed to rack up as big a body count with a knife as you could with an AR-15.
