Trumpster (you know a great post is coming when it's addressed to someone using a fake moniker):

A couple things about those murder rates vs. gun ownership that might be worthy of consideration:

* Most of the countries with the highest murder rates have two things in common:
1. Lots of poverty, which motivates a lot of crime.
2. The distinction of being essentially governed by drug cartels, whose guns were probably not included in the statistics, would surely bump up the percentage significantly, and probably accounted for a huge chunk of the murders.

* Japan and Singapore, despite being densely populated and having a very small percentage of gun owners, are near the very bottom of the list. What makes those countries stark exceptions to the rule being suggested in this thread? My guess is that it's how highly those nations regard honor. Shooting people with whom you don't agree is apparently not honorable.

* Many of the countries with the lowest murder rates are relatively wealthy. No surprise there. And if you kill someone in Bahrain or Kuwait, you're the next one to die, no questions asked. Pretty solid disincentive right there.

Thanks for the data, but next time, don't forget to analyze it before spewing out any "clear trends."

I'm not anti-gun, but I am anti-bullchit, and that's the only reason I'm commenting.