text: Your argument is a bit like comparing the number of swimming pool deaths in Beverly Hills to the same statistic in the middle of the Mohave. The ratio would be nearly infinite but also meaningless. We have more gun related injuries and deaths because we have more guns. That is unassailable. If you're going to be fair, you also need to compare the statistics of overall violent crime including assaults, homicides, home invasions, etc, and include the number of defensive firearms uses in our country. If you do that, the impact and significance of your 300 times the rate of gun related deaths in our country is greatly diminished.