This graph, in the financial times article about immigration, indicates 5. 5 deaths per million. The growth is horrible and yet the reality is nothing like the one being lived in by the US. Most hackernews posters often post about gun violence in the US as being something necessary to address and also simultaneously something that does not impact their day to day decisions around errands like the grocery or activities like music festivals or conferences.
Just to put things in perspective, deaths by firearm are around 60 per million in the US, twelve times the Swedish figure.
Further, as every greying country attempts to use immigration to grow a declining population, some flavor of this comment will negatively impact their efforts:
“Swedes make you feel foreign even when you have the passport, even my kids who were born here,” he says. “They blame immigrants for everything. But this gang violence affects me, my family, my friends as well."
I dont know where you got the statics from but these do not seem to be comparable values.
It most like includes accidents and suicides which have entirely different factors than gun violence and for obvious reason are more likely to be committed with a gun if its easier to get a gun legal.
Overall there is however no correlation with more suicide with better firearm access. Suicide attempts/surviving rates can be slightly lower (for obvious reasons).
Either way none of these should matter since suicide isn't gun violence.
This graph, in the financial times article about immigration, indicates 5. 5 deaths per million. The growth is horrible and yet the reality is nothing like the one being lived in by the US. Most hackernews posters often post about gun violence in the US as being something necessary to address and also simultaneously something that does not impact their day to day decisions around errands like the grocery or activities like music festivals or conferences.
Just to put things in perspective, deaths by firearm are around 60 per million in the US, twelve times the Swedish figure.
Further, as every greying country attempts to use immigration to grow a declining population, some flavor of this comment will negatively impact their efforts:
“Swedes make you feel foreign even when you have the passport, even my kids who were born here,” he says. “They blame immigrants for everything. But this gang violence affects me, my family, my friends as well."