Hi CC,
I'm not sure what your point is in that statement. The homicidal death rate by firearm in France is about .21/100,000. The homicidal death rate by firearm in U.S. 3.43/100,000. Those are rates per 100,000 and so they automatically adjust for population variance.
I often get the feeling that people think I'm trying to end death by firearms totally and because they can then show that someone else in the world has died in such manner, that it just doesn't work. That's not my goal. People still die in Japan by firearm, but it's 20 people out of 126 million. People still die in Great Britain by firearm, but it's generally less than 50 people per year among a population of some 64 million. People die from homicidal firearm deaths in Canada, but in 2013 it was 131 people among a population of 35 million people. People die in Australia by homicidal firearm, but it's generally less than 40 people/year with a population of 28 million.
Now, these numbers are based on total homicide firearm deaths, and therefore do need to be adjusted for population variance. So, let's do the math. The U.S. has some 321 million people. Adjusting for Japan the population difference is about 2.5 (321/126). Multiplying their total firearms homicides by 2.5 would infer that if Japan had the same population as the U.S. and maintained the same kind of control over firearms, the total number of such deaths would be about 50. Similarly, for Great Britain (321/64) would give us 5 times greater population and so the same death count would be about 250 people/year. For Canada (321/35) the difference is 9. So we would project a total homicide firearms deaths of about 1200. Finally, for Australia (321/28) = 11.4 x 40 = 456.
So, here are five nations with fairly strict firearms possession and ownership laws and there doesn't seem to be any question that they enjoy a generally much safer lifestyle when it comes to the possibility of dying at the hands of a person holding a firearm.
So, honestly there really doesn't seem to be much question that strict firearms controls work for reducing homicidal deaths by firearm. Now, whether or not we're a smart enough and caring enough people to be willing to say that the 2nd amendment was a good amendment for its day, but not so much today, and repeal it, will tell the world if we really do love one another. Do we care enough about others that we would be willing to give up this supposed freedom or man given right to bear arms so that fewer people die? Or, are we more prideful and arrogant and would rather say, "I don't give a d*** about anybody else. You won't take my gun away until you pry it from my dead fingers. It's my constitutional right!" And people keep dying by the 10's of thousands each and every year. It's our choice. What kind of people are the American people? News accounts and articles are written about the American people every year that paint us as some murderous bunch of people as a whole nation.
What kind of person are you? Are you more like Jesus? Giving your life that others might live? Sacrificing your supposed freedom and right for the betterment of all? Is it really all that important for you to be able to hold a piece of cold steel in your hands that has the potential to kill without prejudice anyone that you point it at? Or would you give that up so that more might live their lives out? What's important to you?
Here's an article that makes the point. I have no idea who the writer is, as far as his agenda, but the numbers he quotes are correct when compared to the numbers generally reported on other sites:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/04/1427656/-NRA-Calls-Americans-Most-Murderous-People-on-Earth
Of course, his final conclusion is one that must be inferred from his previous information, but he has a point. According to all the same numbers from all the other nations of the world, we are a murderous bunch of folk. There are a lot of things for the U.S. to be very proud of, however, I don't agree that our being seen as a bunch of murderous people should be one of them.
God bless you,
In Christ, Ted