Quote Originally Posted by Hirlau View Post
James, as for your statement, "I can see how this would be a great analogy for Americans, but holds very little relevancy for me in Australia, for example. " I'm not sure that I understand what you are trying to say. Americans are no different than Australians, we are all humans with the same feelings of good & bad. We all have the ability to react to threats, some of us react,,some of us hesitate,,,some of us never see the threat, thus never getting the chance to do either.

ramble over.....

Here's a start:

List of countries by firearm-related death rate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There are a lot of firearm-related deaths in the USA.

There are virtually none in some countries.

Want to guess the difference?