Last year handguns killed 48 people in Japan,8 in Great Britain,34 in Switzerland,52 in Canada,58 in Israel,21 in Sweden,42 in Germany and 10,728 in the United States.God Bless America.

I can find you 7 countries where the per capita murder rate is 15 to 20 times higher than the US. The 7 that you have listed there are plenty of reasons their crime rates our lower than ours. One of the reasons is NOT gun legislation. AIDS kills 5 times more people worldwide than guns. Japan's suicide rate is 6 times higher than the United States per capita. Suicide is the 11th leading cause of death in the US. Murder is 15th. Lung Disease is 4th. Enjoy your cigarettes.

@sean,why is it when talking about the documented number of people who have been KILLED by bullets entering their bodies via GUNS do the NRA nuts start throwing out statistics on diseases?So because lung disease is the 4th cause of death in the US,all firearms should be legal...mmmm ya,Sean,that makes perfect sense.BTW,find me those 7 countries where guns kill more people than the U.S.Also FYI,I'd make commercial cigarettes illegal,grow your own tobacco and roll your own w/o all the chemicals,i'm all for that.But,you know the Big Tobacco lobby is almost as powerful as the NRA.They just keep paying off the politicians.

Folks, PLEASE do your own fact checks and don't rely on the media: the violent crime rate in the UK is MUCH higher than ours (www.homeoffice.gov.uk, you can compare with www.fbi.gov). Nobody is going to be taking anybody's guns away, so we should get over that utopian dream.

I don't belong to the NRA. I'm quite sane. The leading cause of lung disease is smoke entering the body through smoking cigarettes. My point is that the number of people dying from guns is not statistically extraordinary and there are plenty of much bigger causes of unnatural death being caused by people doing plenty of things that are known to put life at risk. You efforts would be better served fighting against those. As requested here are 7 countries with higher fire-arm related death rates with the US at 10.2 per 100,000: El Salvador 50.36, Jamaica 47.44, Honduras 46.70, Guatemala 38.52, Swaziland 37.16, Colombia 28.11, Brazil 19.01.

then why aren't there more drive by spic and span bombings?

Sadly, the drug comment is true. If we got at the users, the entire chain of violence behind them would dry up and we'd save HUGE dollars on the "War on Crime."

Data on bomb deaths for last year are difficult to find data on. However, Harvard did a research study in 2005 compiling bomb related deaths and injuries on US soil between 1983 and 2002. The study's conclusion is that the ease of finding bomb making instructions on the internet and the readily available ingredients create significant risk. You ma'am are remarkably quick to call other people names where you yourself remain ignorant of the facts.
In the United States, 36,110 bombing incidents, 5,931 injuries, and 699 deaths were reported. There were 21,237 (58.8%) explosive bombings, 6,185 (17.1%) incendiary bombings, 1,107 (3.1%) premature bombings, and 7,581 (21.0%) attempted bombings. For explosive bombings with known motives, 72.9% of injuries and 73.8% of deaths were because of homicide. For incendiary bombings with known motives, 68.2% of injuries were because of extortion and revenge, and 53.5% of deaths were due to homicide. Private residences accounted for 29.0% of incidents, 31.5% of injuries, and 55.5% of deaths. Government installations accounted for 4.4% of incidents but were the site of 12.7% of injuries and 25.5% of deaths. In bombings with known materials, nitrate-based fertilizers accounted for 36.2% of injuries and 30.4% of deaths, and smokeless powder and black powder accounted for 33.2% of injuries and 27.1% of deaths.

Ah yes, the old "we weren't going to shoot him we swear" defense.

Are you saying that we should just let people break into our homes because there is a chance that if we defend ourselves we might get hurt? Maybe we just let them rape our wife and children while they are there too?
Accidental shootings kill an average of 600 deaths a year in the US. Five times more people die by choking each year than accidental gun discharge (2,500). Forty (40) times more people die by falling (25,000). Sixty (60) times more people die from poisoning (39,000) . Sixty-five times more people die in car accidents (42,000). Sadly the 600 gun accidents are the most preventable. Not by creating more gun laws but by more responsible gun storage and handling. Weapons should be locked up. They should not be stored loaded. Children should not be left alone where they can access guns (loaded or not). Training should be required to own one. You should have to test with some frequency to continue to be allowed to own one. Registered weapons should have to be inspected at least annually (if for no other reason than to make sure the registered owner still has it).

Joe Biden loves to quote the "most people are shot with their own guns" statistic, but that's only true for suicides -- NOT for a violent encounters like home invasions, robberies, assaults, etc., and this is all tracked by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (check it out: www.cdc.gov) This was debunked by non other than CNN back in April when the White House was beginning to lay the foundation for their gun control policies.

Nobody is telling you that you need to buy a gun or even look at one if you don't want to. What people are saying is, if there are people or things that are important enough for you to stop someone else with a weapon or die trying to stop them, you would want the right to do it with whatever would be appropriate for your situation.

People, do your own fact checking and STOP looking to the media. There are just such huge "lying with statistics" initiatives under way, by BOTH sides. The "Australian experience," for example, of how gun violence went up after the 1997 ban that is being circulated as a letter from a "police officer," is a total fake. Stories like this may be true, but are not borne of large-scale data that show quite the opposite.

Again, we are in the middle of a White House sponsored bar fight, and the "lying with statistics" means we ALL need to get smarter -- or otherwise, we are just what the White House wants: stupid lemmings who just follow what they are told by the media.

Thank you for assuming I even have a gun. I never claimed I did. Secondly you do not know me. Do not presume to know what I do or do not do with anything I own. I am a former US Marine. I have adequate training on many types of firearms and in fact had the highest marksmanship scores. I do not like guns but I also don't live in fantasy land. Law enforcement fails regularly to keep illegal firearms out of the hands of criminals. Every gangbanger and drug dealer from Maine to California is armed. There are enough laws on the books to go out and get these guns off the street but that isn't happening. Until it does people have the right to defend themselves.

It took almost 20 minutes for the police to arrive at Sandy Hook.

Have you actually read this transcipt? At 9:35:53 dispatch is talking to local police. It says nothing about when the caller contacted 911. I've called 911, it can take upwards of 30 seconds before the operator even connects you to local police. I see police on site at 9:39:20 assuming "Their coming at me" (nice grammar btw) was a cop talking. That's almost 4 minutes after the dispatch and who knows how long after the 911 call. Also this exposes another issue. Cops aren't usually willing to put their own lives in danger until they have adequate backup. I don't see any lines on this transcript that show cops in the building until 9:43 that's 8 full minutes after dispatch who knows how long after the 911 call and WAY TOO LATE TO SAVE 27 PEOPLE FROM BEING KILLED.

Agreed Rich although I disagree with the idea that it may be outdated. In the last century there have been plenty of revolutions. Some justified some not. Some won some lost. It is naive to think that we've built a completely revolution-proof country here. There may come a time one day where government oversteps it's authority and where people may need to take matters into their own hands again. It's incredibly unlikely any time in the near future but like you say, the constitution was meant to survive the test of time. Look at some of the revolutions just in the past couple decades.