Re:Message encryption a 'problem' – UK home secretary
by Jedd on Saturday August 05, 2017 @12:33AM
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> ... especially in countries with sane gun (e.g. well thought out, not let's ban everything) regulation that aren't the US.
Sanity is in the eye of the permit-holder, I suspect.
Most countries seem to rarely change their gun laws, having inherited them from various historical events (or fears of possible events).
In Australia we had a major gun law change back in the 1990's in response to a lunatic shooting several dozen people - but I don't know offhand of any other societies that have successfully re-considered their laws and attitudes towards gun ownership.
I'm interested in both car accidents vs gun accidents and car accidents vs all gun related deaths, especially in countries with sane gun (e.g. well thought out, not let's ban everything) regulation that aren't the US.
Here's some stats that I've found just now:
Switzerland: gun related deaths per 100k people: 3.01, with 3.3 being the traffic accidents number.[1][2]
Czech Republic: gun related: 1.8, traffic accidents: 6.1.[3][2]
1 - http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/switzerland
2 - http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/czech-republic
3 -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...