Anti-gun people often say that the U.S. has a higher shooting/gun death rate than of all the other "industrialized" nations. However, the fact that most of the shootings in the U.S., other than suicides are gang related, in economically disadvantaged areas of the U.S. (inner cities). What anti-gun people never seem to get is that fact the the countries they list as having less shootings not only have fewer guns, but have the highest standard of living in the world...way beyond the U.S. In other words, is the deciding factor not guns at all, but the lessended need in those countries to resort to crime? [weforum.org]